Lexicographical Neighbors of Friendlinesses
Literary usage of Friendlinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critical and Exegetical Hand-book to the Gospels of Mark and Luke by Heinrich August Wilhelm Meyer, Robert Ernest Wallis, William Purdie Dickson, Matthew Brown Riddle (1884)
"... that they might not take leisure for human greetings and friendlinesses, and
thus be hindered in their preaching." Vv. 5, 0. See on Matt. x. 12 f. ..."
2. A Beacon for the Blind: Being a Life of Henry Fawcett, the Blind Postmaster by Winifred Holt (1914)
"... gathered to lament his loss, and to recall his many good deeds and the countless
little friendlinesses which he had personally shown to so many of them. ..."
3. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1868)
"... a few minutes before had resounded with the strains of soft music, with the
ripple of low laughter, with the whispered friendlinesses of happy hearts. ..."
4. Annual Report by Society to Encourage Studies at Home, Hortense M. Rowe (1878)
"... charities, friendlinesses, and even by studies carried on in company, in
classes, by lectures, etc., —till home seems the last place for spending one's ..."
5. The Call of the South by Robert Lee Durham (1908)
"So he held his peace, and let the negroes say on with their fulsome friendlinesses.
And what he bore as he kept the faith! It tore his nerves to tatters. ..."
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