Lexicographical Neighbors of Oxtering
Literary usage of Oxtering
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Star Book for Ministers by Edward Thurston Hiscox (1878)
"E'li, the oxtering <:r lifting'up. El-ha'nan, grace, gift, mercy of God. E'li,
Eli, my God, my God. EH'ab, God is my father, or God of the father. ..."
2. Familiar Letters of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott, David Douglas (1894)
"I canna bide to see them oxtering the men that gate," was the observation of an
old Scotch lady of fashion to me scarce ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1901)
"... has only been at the work the matter of three years—no piper is a piper under
seven. He's on the march to the Kirkton—ten mile there and back— oxtering ..."
4. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1834)
"... and its credit destroyed—and the purpose of protecting and/oxtering the
manufactures of tlie United States ; together wilh a statement of the several ..."
5. Memoirs of the Court of George IV, 1820-1830: From Original Family Documents (1859)
"I canna bide to see them oxtering the men that gate," was the observation of an
old Scotch lady of fashion to me, scarce a dozen years since. ..."
6. Memoirs of the Court of George IV, 1820-1830: From Original Family Documents (1859)
"I canna bide to see them oxtering the men that gate," was the observation of an
old Scotch lady of fashion to me, scarce a dozen years since. ..."
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