Lexicographical Neighbors of Sharpings
Literary usage of Sharpings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Simple Method of Modern Harmony by Carl William Grimm (1900)
"F2: As for the remainder, only such fifths possess the proper size again as have
both x or vfe prefixed: Triple sharpings and ..."
2. The Fables of Æsop: With a Life of the Author; Illustrated with One Hundred by Aesop (1865)
"They who by little tricks and sharpings, or by open violence and robbery, live
in a high, expensive way, often in their hearts, at least, despise the poor ..."
3. The Fables of Æsop: With a Life of the Author; Illustrated with One Hundred by Aesop (1865)
"They who by little tricks and sharpings, or by open violence and robbery, live
in a high, expensive way, often in their hearts, at least, despise the poor ..."
4. The Annals of Tennis by Julian Marshall (1878)
"... and so was forc'd to comply with the sharpings and Tricks of the Town, to get
his Bread ; or some Scoundrel that never had an Estate or Honour either, ..."
5. Historical Sketches of North Carolina: From 1584 to 1851, Compiled from by John Hill Wheeler (1851)
"So then the defendant's attorney, allowing the sharpings and layings for granted,
had to make out that seven shillings ..."
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