Lexicographical Neighbors of Speered
Literary usage of Speered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Letter-bag of the Great Western, Or, Life in a Steamer by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1840)
"I speered at the first good-natured, idle-looking fellow I saw, (I like that
word, speered, it is so appropriate an expression among the cattle-stealers of ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England: From the Norman Conquest by Agnes Strickland, Elisabeth Strickland (1852)
"Elizabeth," continues Melville, " speered (asked) whether Mary played well. ...
She said my French was good, and speered whether I could speak Italian ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1894)
"Marg'et scented a piece of gallantry at once, and said " Sweetheart." " Maybe,"
replied Rab, coolly: "at any rate—to explain to you— I speered at him, ..."
4. The English and Scottish Popular Ballads by Francis James Child, George Lyman Kittredge (1884)
"13 He 's gane hame to his father ; He speered for his son John : ' It 's I left
... 14 And whan he gaed hame to his sister, She speered for her brother John ..."
5. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1880)
"He's gane hame to his father ; He speered for his son John : " It's I left him
... And whan he gaed hame to his sister, She speered for her brother John ..."
6. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1864)
"He's gane hame to his father ; He speered for his son John : " It's I left him
... And whan he gaed hame to his sister, « She speered for her brother John:— ..."
7. The Stickit Minister: And Some Common Men by Samuel Rutherford Crockett (1894)
"I speered at every hoose, but the answer was aye, ' It's aboot a mile farther
doon !' They maun be poor road surveyors in that direction, for their miles ..."
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