Lexicographical Neighbors of Drearies
Literary usage of Drearies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1829)
"353). They are impartial, as Die national, IB counterbalanced by the clerical,
prejudice. (34) Teutonic! qula drearies et forma ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1865)
"Last of all, there are the "Dun- drearies" of statecraft, who know nothing
themselves, nor ever knew any one who did—who want to be in the House because it ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"... suffocation by the extreme heat besides other chances of death by tht caving
in of a gallery, or the slipping e the cage, and says this is the drearies' ..."
4. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of Ireland by James Roderick O'Flanagan (1870)
"... or some other fit person; for, Serjeant Eustace, I fear, is not provided with
such neces- ?Ir- drearies as that journey will require. ..."
5. The Poetical Works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White by Samuel Rogers, Thomas Campbell, James Montgomery, Charles Lamb, Henry Kirke White (1830)
"... from the narrow deck to see Í vagrant sea-fowl glad« their eager eye» ; Vhich
makes us feel, in drearies! solitude. 'he meanest link of nature'» family, ..."
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