Lexicographical Neighbors of Perspiry
Literary usage of Perspiry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Dolomite Mountains: Excursions Through Tyrol, Carinthia, Carniola by Josiah Gilbert, George Cheetham Churchill (1864)
"... as we entered its straggling streets, driving up to the Post, of whose honest,
perspiry, and ' complimentary ' landlord we had particular recollection. ..."
2. The business of pleasure by Edmund Hodgson Yates (1879)
"Immediately behind him sat two seedy old women, in damp, mildewed, lustreless
black, with smashed bonnets, and long, black, perspiry old ..."
3. How California Helps Men Own Farms and Rural Homes by California State land settlement board, Freeman Tilden, Robert Emmett Jones (1920)
"... was planning to write about it for a class of readers who do not get all
perspiry about a scheme -because it is new or because it looks well on paper. ..."
4. Golden South Africa, Or The Gold Fields Revisited: Or, The Gold Fields by Edward Peter Mathers (1888)
"One •white man is at present working in both drives in which I spent some time
in a perspiry atmosphere. There is plenty of good stone in sight, ..."
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