Lexicographical Neighbors of Dunness
Literary usage of Dunness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Borrow and His Circle: Wherein May be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished by Clement King Shorter (1913)
"... for the London smoke was flushed by the sinking sun, and had lost its dunness,
and, reddening every moment as it rose above the roofs, steeples, ..."
2. Sonnets of this Century by William Sharp (1886)
"... for the London smoke was flushed by the sinking sun and had lost its dunness,
and, reddening every moment as it rose above the roofs, steeples, ..."
3. The Log of the Snark by Charmian London (1915)
"... and we saw the mourners (more women than men) wrapped to the eyes in what
looked to be literally sackcloth, of an ashen and dusty dunness. ..."
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