Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumbelows
Literary usage of Rumbelows
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1922)
"Harp. B. (46.) HUDSON, STEPHEN. •••Southern Women. Lit. R. Sept.- Harp. B.
Dec., '20. (58.) Hand maid to the rumbelows. HUTCHINSON, ARTHUR STUART MEN- TETH. ..."
2. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1881)
"... and likely to shed tears at the drops oí tar-water, let the other flys, and
rumbelows, come down first. The ladies will rush into the first that come; ..."
3. Denham Parish Registers, 1539-1850, with Historical Notes and Notices by Denham, England (West Suffolk) Parish, Sydenham Henry Augustus Hervey (1904)
"Their descendent about 60 years afterwards sold their two tenements called Peppers
and rumbelows to the second Sir Edward ..."
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