Lexicographical Neighbors of Pouthers
Literary usage of Pouthers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Charles William Wason (1831)
"The paine of my back and the stone do very much in crec, and yet I kip fat.
I want whit wain to take my pouthers in, heare is non to be got tht is god. ..."
2. Cornelius Nepos: With Answered Questions, and Imitative Exercises by Cornelius Nepos (1857)
"... In the year 1841 Вr D. APPLETON & COMPANY, Im the Clerk's Office of the District
Court of the United States for the pouthers District of New York. ..."
3. Whistle-binkie: A Collection of Songs for the Social Circle by John Donald Carrick, Alexander Rodger, David Robertson (1890)
"... or row up a tao, Twas aye to my granny we roarin' wad gae; My granny had
pouthers an' pills o' her ain, And cures o' rare virtue nae doctor micht ken, ..."
4. Master-spirits by Robert Williams Buchanan (1874)
"... from the picture of the' Sleepy wee Laddie,' who won't rise till his mother '
kittles his bosie' or ' pouthers his pow with a watering-can,' down to the ..."
5. One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices by David Herschell Edwards (1888)
"My granny had pouthers an' pills o' her ain, And cures o' rare virtue nae doctor
might ken, Her ill-tasted berbs made our faces to thraw— But wi' something ..."
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