Lexicographical Neighbors of Seamaids
Literary usage of Seamaids
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Primary Teacher. (1897)
"Where the cold seamaids rise to sun their streaming hair. —Oliver Wendell Holmes.
The first six questions refer to the above selection. ..."
2. Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus, Arthur Octavius Prickard (1878)
"We are left to picture to ourselves how— ' Afar, like a dawn in the midnight,
Rose from their seaweed chamber the choir of the mystical seamaids. ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... pining Gaze over island and bay for the sails of the sunken; they heedless
Sleep in soft bosoms forever, and dream of the surge and the seamaids. ..."
4. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"SE'A MAN. ns [sea and man.] I. A sailor 5 a navigator; a mariner. Certain stars
shot from their spheres, To hear the seamaids musick. ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1890)
"... and " the cold seamaids." In front of such a retreat stretches a smooth white
vestibule of sand as pure as snow and as delicate as alabaster. ..."
6. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1892)
"The girl knew not on what land she had chanced, till she heard in the river-mouth
a burden of seamaids which no one else had ever heard therein. ..."
7. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1807)
"B»t ranging every azure swell, And floating under every star, The seamaids moored
their sailor shell With double drops of coral spar. HL Brans. Me. ..."
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