Lexicographical Neighbors of Humdrums
Literary usage of Humdrums
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... ma) est take a pi« telling thy dreams, the company will take cure in hearing
them.' If I can once extirpate the race of solid •tantial humdrums, I hope, ..."
2. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1886)
"... and they sneer at us and at all other religious men and women, and they flout
the parish priests and call them humdrums, and schism is at work horribly, ..."
3. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1864)
"... or Midwife's Masterpiece, containing the most choice collection of humdrums
and Driveller*. Ну Магу Midnight, with Notes ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"If that were ever to come to the ears of the Pounces and the humdrums, there
would be a fine flare-up! But they cannot possibly penetrate the secrets of the ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"... to be named with the Birminghams; they are very common-place humdrums, while
the others are certainly, though secondary stars, yet of great brilliancy. ..."
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