Lexicographical Neighbors of Retailings
Literary usage of Retailings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cassell's Complete Book of Sports and Pastimes: Being a Compendium of Out by Cassell & Co, Cassell (London) (1896)
"Puzzles of this class are usually included among " retailings." and the above
examples of " sword " and " scent " are examples combined of both Decapitation ..."
2. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... to the piecing out of the whole story of the controversy; but others are
impertinent retailings of malicious tattle—of a dog that snapped off a bishop's ..."
3. English Writers: An Attempt Towards a History of English Literature by Henry Morley, William Hall Griffin (1892)
"... are pertinent enough to be fair, and help, no doubt, to the piecing out of
the whole story of the controversy; but others are impertinent retailings of ..."
4. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1834)
"... the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty
gossip which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, ..."
5. The Knickerbocker; Or, New York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew, Timothy Flint, Washington Irving (1834)
"... the same cunning slander, the same crafty and fabricated retailings of petty
gossip which so often now suffice to break the ties of the truest love, ..."
6. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1826)
"I took him for some Jacobinical reformer, whom nothing would content but beheadings
and retailings of our species. ..."
7. The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1881)
"And as an instance in point, Professor Stuart notices the retailings by certain
periodicals published in our own neighborhood, of accusations found in the ..."
8. The Biblical Repertory and Theological Review by Charles Hodge, Peter Walker (1831)
"And as an instance in point, Professor Stuart notices the retailings by certain
periodicals published in our own neighborhood, of accusations found in the ..."
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