Lexicographical Neighbors of Piaffing
Literary usage of Piaffing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Counts of Falkenstein: Noble Self-consciousness in Twelfth-century Germany by John B. Freed (1984)
"... and Rudolph served as witnesses sometime between 1098 and 1137, when Freising
received some predial property at piaffing.22 Von Dungern identified this ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1781)
"... that the fame day might terminate the life and reign of the new emperor.
The piaffing voice of ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1874)
"... Trotting along 'neath the tallest of trees : Prancing, piaffing, at roadside
wells quaffing, Off again, sniffing the Midsummer breeze. ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1896)
"Then they approached by denii-voltes and, 'piaffing,' they shook hands, and then
returned by terre-à-terre to the corners. One rider then pirouetted while ..."
5. Things Chinese: Or, Notes Connected with China by James Dyer Ball (1893)
"... which, when eaten, would confer it; for charms which would bestow it; for
elixirs, the (piaffing of which would send it coursing through one's veins. ..."
6. Italy: With Sketches of Spain and Portugal by William Beckford (1835)
"... and at the very moment I was committing solecisms in good dancing at every
step, and stamping and piaffing like a courser but half-broken in at a manege ..."
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