Lexicographical Neighbors of Mayings
Literary usage of Mayings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Hunger and Industrial Disorders: A Study of Social Conflict During by Walter James Shelton (1922)
""—Green is for mayings, ... Green is for mayings, And that won't do." " What shall
I bring you Then? Will black do Best for your wearing The long day ..."
2. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"Of these mayings we read, in the reign of Henry VI, that the aldermen and ...
These great mayings, and May-games, made by the governors and masters of this ..."
3. A Survey of London by John Stow (1908)
"... had their seuerall mayings, and did fetch in Maypoles, with diuerse warlike
shewes, with good Archers, Morice dauncers, and other deuices for pastime ..."
4. English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson by Henry Spackman Pancoast (1915)
"Of pavement, fast in the ground, nailed full of 10 these mayings we read, in the
reign of ... In the month of May, namely, on May-day These great mayings, ..."
5. Old English Popular Music by William Chappell, Harry Ellis Wooldridge (1893)
"These great mayings and May-games, made by the governors and masters of this
city, with the triumphant setting up of the great shaft [a principal Maypole in ..."
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