Lexicographical Neighbors of Smackings
Literary usage of Smackings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cranio-muscular Origins of Brain and Mind by Philip Henry Erbés (1904)
"It may be said that we strive merely to extract more of the flavors of food in
our smackings, but of what avail would the presence of the extracts be if ..."
2. The Call of the Wild by Jack London (1903)
"All began to eat, using nothing but their hands and making loud mouth- noises
and lip-smackings. The third boy, who was called Hare-Lip, slyly deposited a ..."
3. The Poetical Works of John Dryden by John Dryden (1909)
"... as civil husbands do, To strain himself, in complaisance to you; To write in
pain, and counterfeit a bliss Like the faint smackings of an after-kiss, ..."
4. Works by Manuel Márquez Sterling, William Makepeace Thackeray, Leslie Stephen, Louise Stanage (1902)
"... glass-smackings, and applause followed this harangue, at the end of which the
three Israelites, encouraged by Chisel, began a military cantata—" Oh, ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1898)
"... glass-smackings, and applause followed this harangue, at the end of which the
three Israelites, encouraged by Chisel, began a military cantata—" Oh, ..."
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