Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirls
Literary usage of Dirls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lodge Goat: Goat Rides, Butts and Goat Hairs. Gathered from the Lodge by James Pettibone (1902)
""My papa wore this pretty badge, 'Cause he 'longed to the goodest Lodge What
sends fer little dirls to come To the bestest, nicest, finest home— That's ..."
2. Letters of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell, Charles Eliot Norton (1904)
"... I never knew it ! i «« Ae " — One, in contradistinction to " Ane," which is
used as in " Any one," " One says," etc. » " dirls " — causes to flutter. ..."
3. How sorrow was changed into sympathy, words of cheer for mothers bereft of by Elizabeth Prentiss (1884)
"on its being a " brother-boy"; and one day, as if to explain this, said to his
nurse: " Marget, little dirls like little dirls best; but little boys like ..."
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