Lexicographical Neighbors of Konks
Literary usage of Konks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Captain Unafraid: The Strange Adventures of Dynamite Johny O'Brien as Set by John O'Brien, Horace Herbert Smith (1912)
"The "konks" took the strange white craft to be either a revenue cutter or a
torpedo boat, and the moment they made her out they scurried in all directions, ..."
2. A Captain Unafraid: The Strange Adventures of Dynamite Johnny O'Brien by John O'Brien, Horace Herbert Smith (1912)
"The "konks" took the strange white craft to be either a revenue cutter or a
torpedo boat, and the moment they made her out they scurried in all directions, ..."
3. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1849)
"HYER will ' open the ball;' SULLIVAN will ' rattle in right and left;' on ' konks'
heavy ' deliveries' will be made ; good ' fibbing* and * tidy ..."
4. Specimens of Early English Metrical Romances: To which is Prefixed an by George Ellis, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1848)
"BOOK OF THE COURT: Exhibiting the History, Duties, and Privilege* of the several
konks of the English ..."
5. Florida: The Keys by Don Philpott (2002)
"These first English settlers became known as Conchs (pronounced 'konks'), partly
because of the amount of these sea creatures that they ate, ..."
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