Lexicographical Neighbors of Meers
Literary usage of Meers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad by Arthur Wallis Myers (1903)
"His bete noir at Chiswick and elsewhere was Lewis, who always carried just too
many guns for him, but once at Wimbledon meers very nearly overcame him. ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"O'EE desert plains, and rushy meers, And wither'd heaths, I rove; Where tree,
nor spire, nor cot appears, I pass to meet my love. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Cresswell Cresswell (1829)
"On Saturday, the 2d of September, the plaintiff called on meers, ... meers on
that occasion, said that the defendant would take his stock at a fair ..."
4. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"... that*they make a perambulation in such a country, and so much as appears to
be convenient for a forest, that they surround it by meers and bounds. ..."
5. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the English Ecclesiastical Courts by George Lee, Great Britain (1831)
"The witnesses examined in support of this charge are a man named Wash, meers
himself, and Charlotte Morgan. The two first of these, at least, ..."
6. Mines and Mining: A Commentary on the Law of Mines and Mining Rights, Both by Wilson Isaac Snyder (1902)
"Other customs — Measuring the meers in Derbyshire. 35. Width of surface ground
allowed — Other surface customs. 36. Similar customs in Gloucester — Gales ..."
7. Records Relating to the Early History of Boston by Boston (Mass.). Registry Dept (1898)
"... Negro of Mrs. Tyler July 8,1713 John meers & Hannah Clav July 16, 1713 Samll.
... meers ..."
8. Lawn Tennis at Home and Abroad by Arthur Wallis Myers (1903)
"His bete noir at Chiswick and elsewhere was Lewis, who always carried just too
many guns for him, but once at Wimbledon meers very nearly overcame him. ..."
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