Lexicographical Neighbors of Micawbers
Literary usage of Micawbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Egypt After the War: Being the Narrative of a Tour of Inspection (undertaken by Henry Windsor Villiers Stuart, Villiers Stuart (1883)
"A Sugar Factory—" A Category that gets no pay "—Egyptian micawbers—Statement of
Factory Hands—Sugar making—A Ride across the Estate—Effects of the ..."
2. Hiram College and Western Reserve Eclectic Institute: Fifty Years of History by Francis Marion Green (1901)
"These worshipers of Luck, these micawbers, were not all of them born micawbers.
... The world is full of micawbers "waiting for something to turn up. ..."
3. Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen's Magazine (1894)
"They are micawbers. On a corner of odd old Ann street, just where historic Theater
alley cuts into the narrow and bustling thoroughfare, is a little saloon, ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1897)
"... it was not the London of the Romans, the Saxons, or the Normans, nor the London
of the Plantagenets or the Tudors, but the London of the micawbers and ..."
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