Lexicographical Neighbors of Scambles
Literary usage of Scambles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"They not contented with that ; but they come againe, staring upon the Masters
while they scambles ', and laughing and hooting at them, and the like. ..."
2. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1897)
"... in the Church of scambles- bv &c. My servant John Gee. The chamber where my
neices lie in my house in the Little Cloisters at Westminster (the elder ..."
3. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources by James Prior (1837)
"... Another scambles for his throws, Who in the scuffle got some blows, Then does
arise a greater racket, About a sailor's draw'rs and jacket, ..."
4. The Life of Oliver Goldsmith, M. B.: From a Variety of Original Sources by James Prior (1837)
"... Another scambles for his throws, Who in the scuffle got some blows, Then does
arise a greater racket, About a sailor's draw'rs and jacket, ..."
5. A Treatise Upon Some of the General Principles of the Law: Whether of a by William Wait (1878)
"scambles v. Waters, Cro. Eliz. 636; Moore v. Graces, 3 NH 408 ; Gobi-ing's
Petition, id. 146. But infants may hold offices which are merely ministerial, ..."
6. Politics and Religion: A Study in Scottish History from the Reformation to by William Law Mathieson (1902)
"... and the mere rumour that he intended to sell him, as Morton afterwards did, "
to the scambles," drove the Scots nearly frantic.2 Meanwhile Westmoreland, ..."
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