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Definition of Nestles
1. nestle [v] - See also: nestle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nestles
Literary usage of Nestles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"Mavis; beak almost as much arched; nestles in reeds, and eats little but aquatic
insects. ... nestles ..."
2. The Imperial Gazetteer of India by William Wilson Hunter (1887)
"its midst nestles the beautiful lake of Kallar Kahar. The streams which take
their rise in the table-land, however, become brackish before reaching the ..."
3. The Critical Review, Or, Annals of Literature by Tobias George Smollett (1802)
"Thy voice, that, when thou'rt hoarse, a bunch of bays, What a victorious pleader
nestles there ! Stuck in thy garret-window, may declare A rope of ..."
4. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1901)
"... as'it nestles on the margin of the sweep of ground near the Sheen gate, but
it is from the other or the garden side that the picture is best. ..."
5. A General Digest of the Law of Corporations: Presenting the American by Benjamin Vaughan Abbott, Austin Abbott (1869)
"nestles, 3 Johns. 115, 133. вв. A proceeding on the part of the People of the
State is the only one in which the legality of an election to the office of ..."
6. Under Cover: Evolution of Upholstered Furniture by Ed van Hinte (2006)
"Denuded of all upholstery, his Berlage chair nestles in the tradition of Rietveld
and ... In fact, it nestles in the entire history of the development of ..."
7. Beauties of English landscape by Myles Birket Foster (1874)
"... which to explore Even Fancy trembles, in her sprightliest mood; For there each
eyeball gleams with lust of gore, nestles each murderous and each ..."
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