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Definition of Gnarring
1. gnar [v] - See also: gnar
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gnarring
Literary usage of Gnarring
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Ever at a certain hour, with preternatural gnarring, growling and screeching,
... No, is an unfortunate rusty Meat-jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and ..."
2. The United States Democratic Review by Conrad Swackhamer (1845)
"... gnarring.* The reapers fly. The earth doth deck Herself with darkness ; But
the guarded burgher feels no awe Which the bad to evil deeds doth wake. ..."
3. Past and Present: And Heroes and Hero-worship by Thomas Carlyle (1893)
"No, is an unfortunate rusty Meat-jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and work ;
and this, in Scottish dialect, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"Ever at a certain hour, With preternatural gnarring, growling and screeching,
which attended as running bass, there began, in a horrid, semi-articulate, ..."
5. The New World: College Readings in English edited by Harold Lawton Bruce, Guy Montgomery (1920)
"Ever at a certain hour, with preternatural gnarring, growling, ... No, is an
unfortunate rusty Meat- jack, gnarring and creaking with rust and work; ..."
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