Lexicographical Neighbors of Loobies
Literary usage of Loobies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gull's Hornbook by Thomas Dekker, Ronald Brunlees McKerrow (1904)
"... how to squat down to their meat ; and how to munch so like loobies, that the
wisest Solon in the world shall not be able to take them for any other. ..."
2. The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman: In Three Parallel Texts by William Langland (1886)
"He inveighs against ' great loobies and long, that loath were to work ' (C. i.
53) ; yet he himself was ' too long to stoop low, or to work as a workman ..."
3. Thirty Years' View, Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1856)
"The loobies of the House contained them: the boarding-houses of the whig members
were their resort : the democracy kept aloof, though under other ..."
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