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Definition of Danishes
1. danish [n] - See also: danish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Danishes
Literary usage of Danishes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Pamphleteer by Abraham John Valpy (1823)
"{danishes.} SHADE or JOHNSON appears.—I see no reason for any inscriptions, much
less Greek. Our Shakspeare was an aboriginal Briton. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1858)
"... a great truth in such a manner that instead of upholding and illuminating
other great truths, it obscures and almost (danishes them from the canvass. ..."
3. A Selection of Legal Maxims: Classified and Illustrated by Herbert Broom (1900)
"... danishes in such as may fairly and reasonably be considered as contract,
arising naturally, ie, according to the usual course of things, ..."
4. Century Readings for a Course in English Literature by James Francis Augustine Pyre, Karl Young (1910)
"Spinning danishes, Mohammedan friars who whirl round and round in a state of
religious excitement ' till collapse ensue and sometimes death. ..."
5. Theology: Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons by Timothy Dwight, Sereno Edwards Dwight (1836)
"Peace sooths and hushes every disordered affection, and danishes every uneasy
purpose; and serenity, like the summer evening, spreads a soft and mild lustre ..."
6. Diderot and the Encyclopædists by John Morley (1884)
"He comes, he pleases, the little maid danishes, and I pocket my two thousand crowns.
What, thou hast a talent like this, and yet in want of bread ? ..."
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