Lexicographical Neighbors of Prisses
Literary usage of Prisses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Camden Miscellany by Camden Society (Great Britain), Royal Historical Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... the good we doe heere is only to keepe there men of warr in y' are in, and
prevent those comeing in wth there prisses y' are abroad. ..."
2. The Camden Miscellany by Royal Historical Society (Great Britain), Camden Society (Great Britain) (1883)
"... the good we doe heere is only to keepe there men of warr in y' are in, and
prevent those comeing in wth there prisses y' are abroad. ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1873)
"... and draining the sides as it prisses them.1 Hence the remarkable discrepancy
between the widths of the Niagara above and below the Horseshoe. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1820)
"... A multitude of goblins, pale n£ moonlight, The following is part of the
conversation that prisses between Boleslav and Jaromir. ..."