Lexicographical Neighbors of Cameleons
Literary usage of Cameleons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Travels in Asia Minor, and Greece: Or, An Account of a Tour Made at the by Richard Chandler (1817)
"... of Smyrna from the sea—The Frank street—The Consul's house—Live cameleons.
THE inconveniences, under which we had laboured for some time, ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"Such is the colour of almost all the cameleons which are brought into cold ...
In general, the colours of the cameleons are so much the more lively and ..."
3. The Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works of Henry Thomas Buckle by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"cameleons were also plentiful, particularly of the small species peculiar to ...
The cameleons are characterised from the rest of the lizard tribe by their ..."
4. Superstitions about Animals by Frank F. Gibson (1904)
"cameleons feed on light and air; .Poets' food is love and fame." The reason why
poets choose this light diet, he goes on to explain, is because they dare ..."
5. Miscellaneous and Posthumous Works by Henry Thomas Buckle (1872)
"cameleons were also plentiful, particularly of the small species peculiar to ...
The cameleons are characterised from the rest of the lizard tribe by their ..."
6. Kirby's Wonderful and Scientific Museum: Or, Magazine of Remarkable Characters edited by R. S. Kirby (1804)
"When I kept my cameleons in a cage, and plagued or tormented them, I saw that
they laboured under anguish and rage, which they expressed by expiring the air ..."
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