Lexicographical Neighbors of Saunted
Literary usage of Saunted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"... And ladies dancing, jimp and sma; He clapped his hands, and ere I wist, He
sank and saunted clean awa. 41. your. Motherwell has made one or two slight ..."
2. The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of by William Craig Brownlee (1833)
"... saunted Whiggery." "Ay! and at the bar o' the ETERNAL, lean thee on Charles'
arm,—and be judged by proxy! I tell thee, Colonel Graham, ..."
3. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1849)
"He was completely enveloped in an ample crimson dressing-gown, which waved and
saunted in the breeze after a singular fashion. ..."
4. The Whigs of Scotland: Or, The Last of the Stuarts. An Historical Romance of by William Craig Brownlee (1833)
"... I practise the lessons o' my saunted mother, in heaven, wha inherited the
romantic love of liberty frae the gallant knight her father, wha was brocht up ..."
5. Reminiscences of Old Edinburgh by Daniel Wilson (1878)
"... bane reveres As a saunted relic o' bye-gane years, All in the North Countrie.
An' they vowed a vow, ..."
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