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Definition of Grampas
1. grampa [n] - See also: grampa
Lexicographical Neighbors of Grampas
Literary usage of Grampas
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Wrote from Harwich, that a great fish was seen rolling in the sands near that
place as big as a grampas, but painted like a mackrell: the seamen soon ..."
2. The Dog's Book of Verse (1916)
"'N Rover walked off dignified An' curled his back up 'gainst th' wall — If grampas
ain't got manners, w'y, He isn't goin' to care at all. ..."
3. ... The Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1892)
"... From the horrid boa-constrictor That has scared us in the pictur', From the
Indians of the Pampas Who would dine upon their grampas, From every beast ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... a great Fish that commeth once a day to feed along the shoare, which is like
a grampas. Hee runneth very neere the shoare, and driveth great ..."
5. American Poetry by Percy Holmes Boynton, Frank Martindale Webster, George Wiley Sherburn, Howard Mumford Jones (1918)
"... From the horrid boa-constrictor That has scared us in the pictur', From the
Indians of the Pampas Who would dine upon their grampas, 4° From every beast ..."
6. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... a great Fish that commeth once a day to feed along the shoare, which is like
a grampas. Hee runneth very neere the shoare, and driveth great ..."
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