Lexicographical Neighbors of Lumberly
Literary usage of Lumberly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"Antonyms: gee SKILLFUL, GRACEFUL. 2. Referring to a thing: spec, unwieldy,
cumbrous, heavy, unhandy, bungling, botched, rough, crude, lumberly, lumbering, ..."
2. Letters of Samuel Taylor Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1895)
"... the latter word shall have become an incurable synonym, a lumberly duplicate,
thrown into the kennel of the Lethe-lapping Chronos ..."
3. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, William Laurence Saunders, Walter Clark, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1910)
"lumberly, Simon, army rank, 18. 1103. Lumberton, act to establish, 24. 992.
bill to establish, 2O. 510, 532, 542; 21. 50, 62, 79, 86, 100, 106; to regulate, ..."
4. The MAGAZINE of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and (1851)
"... English farmers that they would not answer in consequence of their light
construction, so very different from the clumsy, lumberly implements in general ..."
5. Diary of an Idle Woman in Italy by Frances Elliot (1872)
"When I say modernised, I mean made to look as lumberly and awkward as St.
George's, Hanover Square. In form it is circular, with three prin- ..."
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