Lexicographical Neighbors of Speeling
Literary usage of Speeling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1895)
"He afterwards picked up a living by frequenting gambling-rooms or billiard-rooms,
and in the summer months went speeling, ie, playing roulette in a tent on ..."
2. Journal of Education by Nova Scotia Dept. of Education (1908)
"Very suitable for several sections, especially H, of the prescribed Nova Scotian
School Libraries. ENGLISH SPELLING ANO speeling REFORM by Thomas R. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1833)
"Many a one have we harried ; for in our schoolboy days we were monkeys at speeling,
and have invaded even the heron's domicile, as it swung to and fro on ..."
4. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... and, excited by the grandeur of the scene, I quite forgot how old I was, how
out of the practice of 'speeling rocks;' and quite forgot, too, ..."
5. Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle by Jane Welsh Carlyle (1883)
"... me from the top of the hill; and, excited by the grandeur of the scene, I
quite forgot how old I was, how out of the practice of ' speeling rocks ;' and ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Stock-brokers and Stock-exchanges by John Randolph Dos Passos (1905)
"846, and cases cited in note speeling on Corp. § 523 et seq.; 1. But the soundness
of this doc- Thompson on Corp. § 799 et seq.; trine may be questioned, ..."
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