Lexicographical Neighbors of Tashes
Literary usage of Tashes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Merv, the Queen of the World; and the Scourge of the Man-stealing Turcomans by Charles Thomas Marvin (1881)
"5 running through an inhabited In all 15 tashes. ... is a village situated 9
tashes (72 versts) from ... is a town situated 4 tashes (32 versts) from ..."
2. Burgh Laws of Dundee: With the History, Statutes, & Proceedings of the Guild by Alex Johnston Warden, Dundee (Scotland). (1872)
"The lint to be delivered in whole tashes. This offer was also refused, but the
Guildry offered £4 2s the stone—on ye terms offered ..."
3. Russian Central Asia: Including Kuldja, Bokhara, Khiva and Merv by Henry Lansdell (1885)
"... told us on Tuesday night that we had made during the day 12 tashes, as also,
they said, 11 tashes the day before ; but we put little confidence in their ..."
4. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society ...: General index to the by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1870)
"From here the distances are marked by " tashes," being a rude sort of sign-post,
with a flat board nailed to it, on which the number of ..."
5. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1844)
"... with their swords ; and last of all, they burned him to"tashes at the stake.
Thus came Faithful to his end.* THE CRUEL DEATH Of FAITHFUL. ..."
6. Spectator (The)by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison by Richard Steele, Joseph Addison (1836)
"... turned ls in read; |nc, he tool at the man- tashes, and Itime to this ation
under I left off all nil his arts •mon, upon Irus has, hood, given lof being ..."
7. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"His Wife is Chesterfield's Sister; he is withal a kind of soldier, as we see;—man
of many sabre-tashes, at least, and acquainted with Cavalry-Drill, ..."
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