Lexicographical Neighbors of Niffs
Literary usage of Niffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Psychology, General Introduction by Charles Hubbard Judd (1917)
"... BJJ indicates the path of the air when not in the direct path of the great
the animal,niffs. The olfactory re- vo]ume of ajr which is Used in ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1841)
"... or Priestesses of the Sun sport niffs and farthingales. But these things arenot
indispensable, they arc only helps. Three things only are absolutely ..."
3. The Yale Literary Magazine by Lyman Hotchkiss Bagg, Yale University (1853)
"Dignity is indeed no longer measured off in rods or yards, and the niffs of the
times of Queen Bess have been discarded, but neatness and elegance of ..."
4. Lives of the Queens of England, from the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1882)
"with niffs from the elbows, to show the sleeves of the chemise, which sustain
rich ruffles of guipure-point, meeting stiff long gloves of leather, ..."
5. Report of the Annual Meeting (1838)
"... (1 in 4O-80); the range of births in the different tur- nifFs was from 1 in
15'70 to 1 in 153-60 persons ; and, on the whole, the hilly tracts had a ..."
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