Lexicographical Neighbors of Maccoboy
Literary usage of Maccoboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southern Literary Messenger by Carnegie-Mellon University, School of Computer Science (1838)
"... was no vulgar sound, though not an unfrequent one since the discovery of maccoboy.
... and I clearly comprehended the operation of my maccoboy upon the ..."
2. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1867)
"Underneath that oozy prairie, which an hour's rain converts into Day and Martin,
and an hour's sun into fine maccoboy, there is an excellent clay which ..."
3. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"After it »•-" and the Vice-President had called some*3 to the chair, he went up
to Mr. CUy,Mli' him for a pinch of his fine maccoboy &№ ' lie often did) ..."
4. History of Hadley, Including the Early History of Hatfield, South Hadley by Sylvester Judd, Lucius Manlius Boltwood, George Sheldon (1905)
"maccoboy snuff was sold some years later. Snuff-takers are now less numerous than
heretofore. {Cigars (or Segars) were used after the peace of 1783. ..."
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