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Definition of Shinies
1. shiny [n] - See also: shiny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shinies
Literary usage of Shinies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Western North Carolina: A History (1730-1913) by John Preston Arthur (1914)
"The shinies are sloping ledges of rock, bare like the Chimneys, or covered with
great thick plaits of shrubs, like the poisonous hemlock, the rhododendron, ..."
2. The Heart of the Alleghanies; Or, Western North Carolina: Comprising Its by Wilbur G. Zeigler, Ben S. Grosscup (1883)
"The shinies are sloping ledges of rock, bare like the Chimneys, or covered with
great thick plats of shrubs, like the poisonous hemlock, the rhododendron, ..."
3. The Heart of the Alleghanies; Or, Western North Carolina: Comprising Its by Wilbur Gleason Zeigler, Ben S. Grosscup (1883)
"The shinies are sloping ledges of rock, bare like the Chimneys, or covered with
great thick plats of shrubs, like the poisonous hemlock, the rhododendron, ..."
4. The English Reader; Or, Pieces in Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Best by Lindley Murray (1824)
"... shinies of ivo. On the elevated situations of fortune, the great calamities
of life chiefly fall. ..."
5. Curiosities of Literature by Isaac Disraeli (1859)
"... lasting April All-various flowers and fruits and verdure showers; Soft shinies,
and waters tempering the hot air ; And undulating paths in equal beauty! ..."
6. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1876)
"Then shall it be, when afar on life's billows, Wherever your tempest-tossed
children are flung, They'll long for the shinies of the home-weeping willow. ..."
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