Lexicographical Neighbors of Jackies
Literary usage of Jackies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book Buyer by Charles Scribner's Sons (1898)
"It deals with our war ships and jackies, and editor and artist have had long
acquaintance with them both. It also takes up the buccaneers' and the ..."
2. The United States Navy in the World War: Official Pictures Selected from the by James Clayton Russell, William Emmet Moore (1921)
"US Naval Camp, San Diego. Cal. Feeding the pigeons at San Diego. jackies on police
duty at the San Diego Camp House-cleaning at San Pedro, ..."
3. Smiling 'round the World by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... jackies—Street Pageants—'' Pidgin-English.'' AFTER an encounter with one of
those monsoons that seem perpetually to lurk between Nagasaki and Shanghai, ..."
4. The Conflict with Spain: A History of the War Based Upon Official Reports by Henry Francis Keenan (1898)
"A few minutes later, when the same group of jackies was in the water, clinging
with their heads just above water to the rounded corners of the catamaran, ..."
5. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"... under the protection of the American flag while his crew sings the following: "We
are jackies, jackies, jackies, And we smoke the best ..."
6. With Sampson Through the War by William Athelstane Meredith Goode, William Thomas Sampson, Robley Dunglison Evans, Chapman C. Todd (1899)
"jackies, and whatever lurking instinct of self-preservation still remained was
... Two jackies stood out on the fo'castle of the Iowa heaving the lead. ..."
7. The Ten Books of the Merrymakers edited by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1908)
"... under the protection of the American flag while his crew sings the following: "We
are jackies, jackies, jackies, And we smoke the best ..."
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