Lexicographical Neighbors of Darnings
Literary usage of Darnings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Oddities of the Law by Franklin Fiske Heard (1881)
"... that they will soon resemble Sir John Cutler's silk stockings, from which
every particle of silk had been displaced by darnings of worsted. ..."
2. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"... and this sensation would have continued in them through all the succession of
darnings; and yet after the last of all, there was not perhaps one thread ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"At two she made a little toilet for dinner, and was employed on numberless
household darnings and ..."
4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1912)
"Those of evil life and those who adhere to vain ceremonies and superstitious
observances should be excommunicated after three darnings. ..."
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