Lexicographical Neighbors of Slatings
Literary usage of Slatings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) by George Saintsbury (1896)
"... mere summaries or scrappy "puffs" and "slatings," seldom possessing much grace
of style, and scarcely ever adjusted to any scheme of artistic criticism. ..."
2. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1900) by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... summaries or scrappy " puffs" and " slatings," seldom possessing much grace
of style, and scarcely ever adjusted to any scheme of artistic criticism. ..."
3. Daboll's Schoolmaster's Assistant: Improved and Enlarged. Being a Plain by Nathan Daboll, Samuel Green (1837)
"THE Double Rule of Three teaches to resolve at once such questions as require
two or more slatings in simple proportion, whether direct or inverse. ..."
4. Appletons' Journal (1879)
"There is one thing that I think should be set down to the credit of the literary
profession— that for the most part they take their " slatings " (which is ..."
5. The Yellow Book (1896)
"Are the " slatings " in its own columns invariably signed î Do tell me, apropos
of this, and if the question be not indiscreet, what is the secret of the ..."
6. The Story of a House by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1874)
"... slatings. Here, the north and northwest winds are violent, and bend the rain
and snow to an angle of 30 degrees. Slating which is only held at the top ..."
7. Trades' Societies and Strikes by Committee on Trades' Societies (1860)
"The society defended all men prosecuted for trade assaults or "slatings," as the
term was, and maintained them and their families while they were in prison. ..."
8. Italian Fantasies by Israel Zangwill (1910)
"... could we light on a source of certainty like the contemporary slatings in the
Renaissance Review. Some of these sleuth-hounds might even be vindicated; ..."
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