Lexicographical Neighbors of Leear
Literary usage of Leear
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"I'm something of a leear mysel'." wit and wisdom, which is found in most languages,
and is quoted by St. Jerome, in the fourth century, as being even then ..."
2. A run with the Tyndale hounds, a romantic drama [in verse], by a fox [G by George Crawshay (1884)
"SAM leear rushes in. The master's killed! SAM leear. BOB BLUNT. [Shouts of laughter.
No—that's not come to pass, The master's just been here to get a glass. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"Still, I wadna ca' tbe Pope a leear, like Mr Wolfe ... man sa leear, unless he
kens that he is ane ; and his Holiness, for ony thing I ken to the contrar, ..."