Lexicographical Neighbors of Gurly
Literary usage of Gurly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Revised Reports: Being a Republication of Such Cases in the English by Frederick Pollock, Robert Campbell, Oliver Augustus Saunders, Arthur Beresford Cane, Joseph Gerald Pease, William Bowstead, Great Britain Courts (1902)
"Bagnal gurly died intestate in the lifetime of his father and of his wife, ...
The appellant, Walter Bagnal gurly, was the heir-at-law of the testator ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1874)
"elder became entitled thereto, as his sole next of kin, and that the sanie
constituted a portion of the personal estate of Thomas gurly the elder, ..."
3. A Treatise of the Law of Property: As Administered by the House of Lords by Edward Burtenshaw Sugden, Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords (1849)
"gurly therefore had a freehold lease for lives, and a chattel lease for 999 ...
If, as suggested in one report, the assignment from St. Leger to gurly was ..."
4. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"Gurl, to growl; gurly, boisterous, stormy, savage, growly; from the German and
Flemish grollen, the English growl, to express displeasure or anger by ..."
5. The Lost Beauties of the English Language: An Appeal to Authors, Poets by Charles Mackay (1874)
"gurly, growly, savage. ' Dictionary of the Oldest Words in the English Language.'
The lift grew dark and the wind blew loud, And gurly grew the sea. ..."
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