Lexicographical Neighbors of Graple
Literary usage of Graple
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"graple, for grapple, which, as a substantive, means any strong hook by which
things are seized and held, as ships to each other in boarding. ..."
2. Seraphim Trilogy Book One; What the Herald Angel Sang by Teralee E. M. Bird (2004)
"... for his sister — if she had the biggest room, she was worthy of laud), guessing
it was, because of all the photos on the walls and its colours. graple ..."
3. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1892)
"obliged to retreat with loss of several Men Since which sent two fire Sloops up
to graple them One of them ..."
4. An Historical Account of the Most Celebrated Voyages, Travels, and by William Fordyce Mavor (1803)
"On a second trial he was suspended in the air, and was endeavouring to draw
himself into the cavern by fixing a graple to the statue. ..."
5. Mirror for magistrates: in five parts by William Baldwin, Richard Niccols, John Higgins (1815)
"... to glory the greece, The staire to estate, the graple of grace : But in her
is hidde of perill a pecce, Which all our attempts doth dimme and deface. ..."
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