Lexicographical Neighbors of Kreese
Literary usage of Kreese
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Universal Geography: Or A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1827)
"The kreese is a piece of ordinary iron, which seldom recovers its shape when bent.
... Men of all ranks invariably wear the kreese. They constantly file and ..."
2. The Classical Journal (1820)
"After they have by this ceremony confirmed their vow, they draw their kreese,
and never again sheath it, till they have drenched it in blood: so resolute is ..."
3. Universal Geography: Or, A Description of All Parts of the World, on a New by Conrad Malte-Brun (1829)
"The kreese is a piece of ordinary iron, which seldom recovers its shape when bent.
... Men of all ranks invariably wear the kreese. They constantly file and ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1853)
"As he spoke, the boat received a violent shock ; the old Malay plunged bis kreese
into the young man's breast, .:nid his companion split the ..."
5. An Account of the Island of Ceylon: Containing Its History, Geography by Robert Percival (1803)
"These consist of a kind of dagger, called a kreese or ... before they draw the
kreese to execute any bloody purpose on which they have determined. ..."
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