Lexicographical Neighbors of Follying
Literary usage of Follying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1765)
"... follying is a word of which I know any example ; and the fairy's favourite
might, ^ithout muck ..."
2. The Cambridge History of English Literature by Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller (1910)
"He strains at a gnat, it may be, and then swallows his own camel. "Following" is
changed to "follying," which we are told means "wantoning"; "jewel" becomes ..."
3. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1900)
"So, seeing there was no help for it, he maid up his mind, and accordingly wrote
the follying letter to Miss Griffin :— " My ADORED MATILDA,—Your letter has ..."
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