Lexicographical Neighbors of Danglings
Literary usage of Danglings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne (1887)
"... and danglings, to as many devils as chose to accept of them. When issues of
events like these my father is waiting for are hanging in the scales of fate ..."
2. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1815)
"... at Versailles,"— to military trappings and danglings crowding the royal levee
rooms,— and to princely buildings that are as self-willed and extravagant, ..."
3. Studies of a Biographer by Sir Leslie Stephen (1902)
"... but to Bagehot, in spite of certain faint proclivities towards Catholicism,
their speculations appeared to be futile danglings after extinct phantasms. ..."
4. Familiar Allusions: A Hand-book of Miscellaneous Information Including the by William Adolphus Wheeler, Charles Gardner Wheeler (1887)
"They fling out their danglings more wildly than any peal in London : they are
nearer the ground, nnd the hurly-burly is melodious enough. ..."
5. The Great Modern American Stories: An Anthology by William Dean Howells, Boni & Liveright (1920)
"She put Jameson on a sofa upholstered in a kind of pink and silver brocade and
adorned with certain superfluous hangings, danglings and ..."
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