Lexicographical Neighbors of Chaines
Literary usage of Chaines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Records of the Town of Newark, New Jersey: From Its Settlement in 1666, to by Newark (N.J.) (1864)
"ALSO a peece of meadow at the Lower tide pond, in Length seaven- teene chaines,
In breadth seaven chaines, bounded east by the creeke that runs into the ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1904)
"6 and run N 55° E at 10.00 chaines set a random stake for half way at 24.14 ...
Then correcting back at 12.07 chaines set a stone for the NE. corner of a ..."
3. The Diary of Henry Machyn, Citizen and Merchant-taylor of London, from A.D by Henry Machin, John Gough Nichols (1848)
"This direction was complied with, Greene being hanged in chaines, according to
Holinshed, " in the high waie betwixt ..."
4. Records of the Court of New Castle on Delaware by New Castle (Del.). Court, Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (1904)
"1 bull 1 steer 1 hatt 360 : 1 man servant to 360 : 1 Kart 2 chaines & other
furniture 80 ... chaines ..."
5. Memoirs of John Evelyn ...: Comprising His Diary, from 1641-1705-6. And a by John Evelyn (1871)
"... nor lesse to your glory, whilst men behold you living your owne Institutions,
and preaching to us as effectually in your chaines as in the Chaire, ..."
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