Lexicographical Neighbors of Paltrinesses
Literary usage of Paltrinesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1867)
"The very best always have some painful triviality and absurdity ; the ' Children
in the Wood ' itself is full of paltrinesses ; Widdrington and hia stumps ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... he is intolerant of the that Ossian ? paltrinesses and impertinences of art
when they intrude on nature's " what, He—who mid the kindred throng reign, ..."
3. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... animal of any size, should be submitted to such scandalous paltrinesses; and
it must end, and I had better make that my first business to-day. ..."
4. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... animal of any size, should be submitted to such scandalous paltrinesses; and
it must end, and I had better make that my first business to-day. ..."
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