Lexicographical Neighbors of Dewitts
Literary usage of Dewitts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of the Table-talk of Samuel Rogers.: To which is Added Porsoniana by Samuel Rogers, Alexander Dyce, William Maltby (1856)
"... and have often liberally contributed to the support of the persecuted.
The destruction of the DeWitts was entirely the result of a momentary passion. ..."
2. The Connecticut Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly by William Farrand Felch, George C. Atwell, H. Phelps Arms, Frances Trevelyan Miller (1906)
"The DeWitts were of aristocratic ancestry from New York and the writer remembers
the old lady and the portraits of her parents, painted it was said by ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... the design formed by De Ruyter, in conjunction with the DeWitts, of sailing
up the Thames and burning the English ships in their harbours. ..."
4. History of Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts: Including Lynnfield, Saugus by Alonzo Lewis, James Robinson Newhall (1865)
"... and they adopt that orthography, it is understood, on the supposition that
they are descended from the DeWitts of Holland, or from a Huguenot. ..."
5. Collections of the New Hampshire Historical Society by New Hampshire Historical Society (1850)
"... or Dutch honesty and enterprise, worthy the best days of William Tell or the
DeWitts;—the latter can readily be found in our thousand marts of commerce, ..."
6. Writings of Levi Woodbury, LL. D.: Political, Judicial and Literary by Levi Woodbury (1852)
"... or Dutch honesty and enterprise, worthy the best days of William Tell or the
DeWitts, the latter can readily be found in our thousand marts of commerce, ..."
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