Lexicographical Neighbors of Gridironed
Literary usage of Gridironed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mount Omi and Beyond: A Record of Travel on the Thibetan Border by Archibald John Little (1901)
"... Dress— Uncommon Steepness—Climate of Szechuan—gridironed by Streams —Rise of
Yangtze—Cost of Journey—Tribute Verse—The Snow- guarded Treasure Peaks—Road ..."
2. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting (1902)
"The islands have been gridironed with telegraph and telephone lines and tied
together by cables. A fleet of revenue cutters are used to maintain a schedule ..."
3. The Frontier in American History by Frederick Jackson Turner (1920)
"The Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul, the Chicago and Northwestern Railway,
Burlington, and other roads, gridironed the region; and the unoccupied lands of ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1900)
"To move these fruits of the earth and sky, the country is gridironed with railroads;
and the rivers, which once were the usual high ways,have now ceased ..."
5. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"For hours he gridironed himself by inhaling these poisonous products. And so the
next morning his head tries its best — in its artless, plaintive way — to ..."
6. Transactions by National Association of Cotton Manufacturers, New England Cotton Manufacturers' Association, Institution of Public Health Engineers (Great Britain) (1900)
"What then may we expect when China, no longer dependent on her waterways for
communication, is gridironed with railroads? Already Pekin, Tientsin and ..."
7. Abraham Lincoln by John Torrey Morse (1893)
"The State was to be "gridironed" with thirteen hundred miles of railroad; the
courses of the rivers were to be straightened; and where nature had neglected ..."
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