Lexicographical Neighbors of Kistful
Literary usage of Kistful
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rhymes of Northern Bards: Being a Curious Collection of Old and New Songs by John Bell (1812)
"An Jack i' the raw, ye very weel knaw, The loss he cam too, when his house it
was brunt: His kistful of paper, went up in a vapour, An of his sixscore pund ..."
2. John Cassell's Illustrated History of England by John Frederick Smith, William Howitt (1859)
"The stern puritans, and especially the Scotch presbyterians, who dubbed an organ "
a kistful o' whistles," denounced all music as profane, and drove organs ..."
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