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Definition of Sontags
1. sontag [n] - See also: sontag
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sontags
Literary usage of Sontags
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... Rule, 'The Holy Sabbath"; Schaff, 'History of the Christian Church';
Zahn, 'Geschichte des sontags vor- nehmlich in der Alien Kirche." SUNDAY CONSTABLE. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... Rule, 'The Holy Sabbath'; Schaff, 'History of the Christian Church';
Zahn, 'Geschichte des sontags vor- nehmlich in der Alien Kirche.' SUNDAY CONSTABLE. ..."
3. The Bookman (1907)
"ghostly glimpse of the rustling crinoline, the "sontags," the pinched waists,
and the white-stockinged feet, and to hear the airs of the old Italian operas ..."
4. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1836)
"Mr. Lloyd says :— ' The Germans give the name of Sunday child (sontags kind) to
one born on a Sunday. Such a child, in the opinion of the superstitious, ..."
5. Portraits of the Eighteenth Century: Historic and Literary by Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve (1905)
"Hence his passion for her, which is in no wise more surprising than those which
we have observed in certain dilettanti of our own time for the sontags and ..."
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