Lexicographical Neighbors of Scoursed
Literary usage of Scoursed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Aunt Phillis's Cabin: Or, Southern Life as it is by Mary Henderson Eastman (1852)
"I know I could a 'scoursed them niggers powerful. Its a hard thing to wear a
ruffled shirt. Dey sticks out and pushes up to people's chins—I mean people dat ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"... which wul sei ve united, doth grow and prosper, and the Sea doth not beate
that the Trees arc straight, is a token that the Port, besides ¡scoursed of, ..."
3. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett by Thomas Bayly Howell, William Cobbett (1817)
"... and to be scoursed by the hand of the ' common hangman, the first Wednesday
of ' July yearly, being a lawful day, ..."
4. The British Prose Writers by William Temple (1821)
"Upon the state of the nation in 1775, he thus scoursed : " Sir, the great misfortune
now is, that overnment has too little power. All that it has to stow, ..."
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