Lexicographical Neighbors of Proined
Literary usage of Proined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Francis Bacon by John Thomas Scharf, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Francis Bacon, James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath, William Rawley (1878)
"the lower boughs only maintained, and the higher continually proined off: " and
again § 823. ..."
2. An English Garner: Ingatherings from Our History and Literature by Edward Arber (1897)
"... and glad the time did spend Under those crystal drops which fell from her fair
eyes ; And at their brightest beams him proined in lovely wise. ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old English Plays by William Carew Hazlitt, Robert Dodsley (1875)
"... he proined him well, and brought him up to learning. MECH. Faith, reasonable
learning • a smattering in the Latin tongue. ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"being placed as you have heard, and five and forty in number, and Rawlins having
proined the Tuch-holes, James Roe gave fire to one of the peeces, ..."
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