Lexicographical Neighbors of Supplejacks
Literary usage of Supplejacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... which grasp hold of one as he tramples through the bush ; and supplejacks,
not unlike bamboos, but possessing the same peculiarity as the banyan-tree, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"supplejacks (up-country Australian), creepers, lianas. ... supplejacks, Cyclopean,
Binding huge tree to tree, with strength of mesh No apic elephant could ..."
3. Journal of Botany, British and Foreign (1869)
"Its species are " supplejacks " or " Lawyers "—climbers on forest trees; and,
especially when in flower, among the most handsome ornaments of the New ..."
4. Passages in a Wandering Life by Thomas Arnold (1900)
"There is little difficulty about this; the surveyor's post at the corner of the
section is found if possible; a number of straight sticks of supplejacks are ..."
5. My New Zealand Garden by Suffolk Lady (1905)
"Then other things are being smothered or strangled by ugly, worthless Lawyers
and supplejacks. Lawyers are prickly subjects, from which it is very difficult ..."
6. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1896)
"rope-like creepers that wound themselves about us in a curious fashion— supplejacks,
as they are called on the west coast ..."
7. An American Primer by Walt Whitman, Horace Traubel (1904)
"... shaved persons, supplejacks, ecclesiastics, men not fond of women, women not
fond of men, cry down the use of strong, cutting, beautiful, rude words. ..."
8. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1894)
"Within the space of our own life this valley had been a pathless forest with
impassable undergrowth of vines and supplejacks ; and now the blackened bones ..."
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