Lexicographical Neighbors of Tarboy
Literary usage of Tarboy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dramatic Criticism by James Thomas Grein (1902)
"... author's intimacy with the manners of our gentlemen's gentlemen and the other
folk in the Hinterland of fashionable houses; while, in the valet tarboy, ..."
2. Once a Week by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1860)
"... of course, had my general adhesion ; but it was surprising what bids the tarboy
party would occasionally make for the support of independent members. ..."
3. The Manuscripts of Sir William FitzHerbert, Bart., and Others by William FitzHerbert, John Robinson, Arthur Lyttleton Lyttelton-Annesley, Arthur Annesley Anglesey, James Arthur Bennett, Richard Ward, James Joel Cartwright (1893)
"Whereupon the next day after the said tarboy returned to the informant and in
his company Preston the Constable who had apprehended Hobson and North to ..."
4. Historical Studies Relating Chiefly to Staffordshire by John Law Cherry, Karl Cherry (1908)
"He did repeat this story to Joseph tarboy, another of Lord Aston's servants, ...
The next day tarboy returned to the informant, having with him the ..."
5. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"162 : The tarboy, the cook, and the slushy, the sweeper that swept the board,
lie picker-up, and the penner, with the rest of the shearing horde. ..."
6. Austral English: A Dictionary of Australasian Words, Phrases, and Usages by Edward Ellis Morris (1898)
"This man's assistant is called 'the slusher.' Snowy River,' p. 162 : 1896.
AB Paterson, ' Man from " The tarboy, the cook, and the slushy, the sweeper that ..."
7. A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina by George William Logan (1874)
"Logan was clearly a soldier of William of Orange; indeed, Aickman states that
when the Prince landed at tarboy, he had " three regiments of Scots " under ..."
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