Lexicographical Neighbors of Emptings
Literary usage of Emptings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Frugal Housewife: Dedicated to Those who are Not Ashamed of Economy by Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)
"If your sponge looks frothy in the morning,, it is a sign your bread will be
good; if it does not rise, stir in a little m ire emptings ; if it rises too ..."
2. In the Sixties by Harold Frederic (1897)
"The farmer's patience was running emptings. " No! " he said, severely, " I forbid
ye! Don't ye dare say a word to her about it. She don't want to listen to ..."
3. Men and Events of Forty Years: Autobiographical Reminiscences of an Active by Josiah Bushnell Grinnell, Henry Webster Parker (1801)
"The jug was just filled with new yeast — " emptings " from the still-house, and
there was a suggestion in a sportive mood, that, as we were under the hill, ..."
4. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Samuel Longfellow (1886)
"He is " running emptings," as Jeremiah Mason used to say. 4th. No letters to-day.
I begin to think that the New York youth who borrowed money of me to get ..."
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