Lexicographical Neighbors of Garrans
Literary usage of Garrans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland by John Patrick Prendergast (1870)
"... six cows, twenty sheepe, nine garrans ; fifteen acres of wheate, beare, and
pease. 89. ... three cows, five garrans; twelve acres of wheate and beare. ..."
2. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland (1879)
"... been timely served with the within order of summons, and yet in open contempt
of said authorities failed either to restore the garrans within specified, ..."
3. The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To by William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757)
"... for his team (whereas common garrans ... and improving bog into meadows ; the
race of garrans would ... which could not be wintered like garrans, ..."
4. The Bog of Stars: And Other Stories and Sketches of Elizabethan Ireland by Standish O'Grady (1893)
"Rough garrans, with rougher drivers, succeeded them, ... On the backs of some of
the garrans were fastened ladders, newly made, for they were very white. ..."
5. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... had very ill entertainment, finding no other relief of victual in the country
than of certain garrans,1 which they bought of poor men for their money, ..."
6. The Egerton Papers: A Collection of Public and Private Documents, Chiefly by Francis Egerton Ellesmere, John Payne Collier (1840)
"... away a pray of cowes and garrans, to the worth and value of vc1 ' star., as
was proved before us by the ..."
7. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1895)
"... had very ill entertainment, finding no other relief of victual in the country
than of certain garrans,1 which they bought of poor men for their money, ..."
8. The Cromwellian settlement of Ireland by John Patrick Prendergast (1870)
"... six cows, twenty sheepe, nine garrans ; fifteen acres of wheate, beare, and
pease. 89. ... three cows, five garrans; twelve acres of wheate and beare. ..."
9. The Journal of the Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland (1879)
"... been timely served with the within order of summons, and yet in open contempt
of said authorities failed either to restore the garrans within specified, ..."
10. The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To by William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757)
"... for his team (whereas common garrans ... and improving bog into meadows ; the
race of garrans would ... which could not be wintered like garrans, ..."
11. The Bog of Stars: And Other Stories and Sketches of Elizabethan Ireland by Standish O'Grady (1893)
"Rough garrans, with rougher drivers, succeeded them, ... On the backs of some of
the garrans were fastened ladders, newly made, for they were very white. ..."
12. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1894)
"... had very ill entertainment, finding no other relief of victual in the country
than of certain garrans,1 which they bought of poor men for their money, ..."
13. The Egerton Papers: A Collection of Public and Private Documents, Chiefly by Francis Egerton Ellesmere, John Payne Collier (1840)
"... away a pray of cowes and garrans, to the worth and value of vc1 ' star., as
was proved before us by the ..."
14. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1895)
"... had very ill entertainment, finding no other relief of victual in the country
than of certain garrans,1 which they bought of poor men for their money, ..."
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