Lexicographical Neighbors of Spittles
Literary usage of Spittles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lavengro; the scholar, the gypsy, the priest by George Henry Borrow (1872)
"... Sense Grandeur and Gentility—Ironmonger's Daughter—Clan Mac-Sycophant—Lick-
spittles—A Curiosity—Newspaper Editors—Charles the Simple—High-'ying Ditty ..."
2. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of the by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Ephraim Williams, Dudley Atkins Tyng, Octavius Pickering, Theron Metcalf, Luther Stearns Cushing, Horace Gray, Charles Allen, Albert Gallatin Browne (1899)
"The assignee of the estates of the spittles in bankruptcy also laid claim to the
balance, and contested the prayer of the petitioners. ..."
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