Lexicographical Neighbors of Lepped
Literary usage of Lepped
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Speaker's Garland: Comprising 100 Choice Selections by Phineas Garrett (1892)
"He was not cut in two wid a sabre, Nor struck wid a big cannon ball; But he lepped
from a four-story windy, An', bedad! he got kilt in the fall. ..."
2. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"... And threw; but nought availed : He was so wimble and so wight, From bough to
bough he lepped light, ..."
3. Sunset by Southern Pacific Company, Southern Pacific Company. Passenger Dept (1914)
"... they fell out av ranks, but that divil av a Captain Cooney only smiled at them
wit'his eyes and lepped nimbly along at the head av the com- p'ny. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1891)
"I pulled the grey together, and found, as we negotiated the road, that he was
what an Irishman would call "an intricate lepped one," never putting a foot ..."
5. 'Hail and Farewell!' by George Moore (1912)
"They were driving along the road on an outside car when a boy lepped out from
behind a hedge and whispered ' polls !' The driver immediately turned the ..."
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