Lexicographical Neighbors of Crowers
Literary usage of Crowers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches by David Drummond Bone (1890)
"The crowers' forwards showed great pace, and one of them, Will Cumming, ...
The crowers' goalkeeper was a good one, and could clear his place of defence ..."
2. The Poultry Book: A Treatise on Breeding and General Management of Domestic by John C. Bennett (1851)
"He advises to reject crowers, and such as are savage, quarrelsome, or peevish,
because such are seldom favorites with the cocks, scarcely ever lay, ..."
3. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1914)
"Whenever results are secured that are of benefit to the crowers. a meeting is
held for the purpose of explaining and observing these results and ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1823)
"You are a puny pen of Bantams, feathered down to the toes, and assiduous crowers ;
but little worth, either for breeding or for battle. ..."
5. Roughing it in the Bush, Or, Life in Canada by Susanna Moodie (1852)
"How all the crowers in the neighbourhood give him back a note of defiance !
But he knows that he's safe enough at the bottom of the basket. ..."
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