Lexicographical Neighbors of Hondles
Literary usage of Hondles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Seinte Marherete the Meiden Ant Martyr, in Old English by Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Margaret (1866)
"Then either held other hastily in arms, and with keen kisses they cuddled em
together, treated one another as familiars: je hondleS op (MS. Cott. ..."
2. The Wedgwoods: Being a Life of Josiah Wedgwood; with Notices of His Works by Llewellynn Frederick William Jewitt (1865)
"... knife hondles, an' smaw crocks, at th' Ivy hahs, close to where we're nah sittin'. ..."
3. Ab-o'th'-Yates Dictionary; Or, Walmsley Fowt Skoomester: Put T'gether by Th by Benjamin Brierley (1881)
"... wi' spoons, an' knife hondles. To table, is to pay so mich a week for meals;
an' used be very mich i'th' fashin wi' young folk ut wur feart o' dooin too ..."
4. Letters and Papers, Foreign and Domestic, of the Reign of Henry VIII by James Gairdner, John Sherren Brewer, Robert Henry Brodie, Great Britain Public Record Office (1908)
"Now encloses a bill made by Guillame vander Guchte in Mercus hondles name for 3051.
6s. 8</., payable 24 June. Would know as soon as possible whether Mercus ..."
5. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse: (Los Cuatro Jinetes Del Apocalipsis) by Vicente Blasco Ibáñez (1918)
"... babies as though they were hondles. The general precipitation dissipated the.
usual exaggerated and oily Teutonic amiability. ..."
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