Lexicographical Neighbors of Palmies
Literary usage of Palmies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Education, Its Principles and Practice by George Combe, William Jolly (1879)
"This had a great effect apon the six or seven present ; one suggested that I
should give them all palmies and let them go, and then I could get home to my ..."
2. Report of the commissioners by Schools inquiry commission, Great Britain Schools Inquiry Commission (1868)
"The master told me he seldom inflicts " palmies" now ; and I quite believe this.
The discipline certainly was very good in this department. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"Fraser had taught us that masters were apt to be sometimes too severe with their
punishments, and therefore authorised us to count his ' palmies,' and to ..."
4. An Autobiography: My Schools and Schoolmasters; Or, The Story of My Education by Hugh Miller (1854)
"I had of course to receive a few palmies additional for the speech; but then, "
who oared for that ? ..."
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