Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscreations
Literary usage of Miscreations
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"... the result of so unlicensed a dalliance but a spawn of monsters and miscreations ;
of hideous and unreal existences ; of phantoms and will-o' the-wisps, ..."
2. A Survey of English Literature 1780-1880 by Oliver Elton (1920)
"Clearly, this is but one phase1 of the great movement 'back to nature ' from the
miscreations of social man, which found its chief apostle in Rousseau. ..."
3. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1892)
"About the damage and injury of the world owing to greed (dzo) and its
fellow-miscreations, and him who is their supporter and abettor, the idolator ..."
4. Pahlavi Texts by Edward William West (1885)
"... miscreations are captured. 77. And pertaining to the springe and trap of the
wild animal, who is mischievous owing to his own wilfulness, ..."
5. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1916)
"... tricks, bad eating, yelps, and all the miscreations of ugliness will become
intolerable,' it must strive for one main result which will be at the same ..."
6. Miscellanies by Algernon Charles Swinburne (1886)
"In one only of his dramatic miscreations is there the dimmest glimpse of interest
discoverable, even as regards the mere conduct of the story: and this play ..."
7. A Gallery of Literary Portraits by George Gilfillan (1845)
"These are miscreations, spasmodic beyond the worst of Michael Angelo's. How far
inferior to that one inscription in Dante, " Who enters here leaves hope ..."
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