Lexicographical Neighbors of Swamies
Literary usage of Swamies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Indian Journal by Walter Campbell (1864)
"swamies. Crucifixes, for instance, and other figures really well carved, ...
He evidently looked upon the ' swamies' as the objects best worthy of attention ..."
2. The Dispatches of Field Marshal the Duke of Wellington: During His Various by Arthur Wellesley Wellington (1837)
"I have desired him to give the prize agents a receipt for the swamies, and, as
it appears that they are to be paid for, you will be the best judge, ..."
3. Life in London: Or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and by Pierce Egan, Robert Cruikshank, George Cruikshank (1904)
"... MP's, mail-guards, swaMies, &c. all in one rude contact, jostling and pushing
against each other, when the doors were opened to procure a front seat. ..."
4. The Christian Library: A Reprint of Popular Religious Works by Jonathan Going (1836)
"At all the great festivals of the church they conform to the customs of the
Heathens; except that they call their 'swamies' by names of Aponte and other ..."
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