Lexicographical Neighbors of Threeping
Literary usage of Threeping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1827)
"... and the tither threeping, as if not only their verra lives depended on't, but
the hail creation ; whereas the dispute was only about some abstract ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg (1863)
"... there to be sure it's a treat to hear the tañe threeping and the tither
threeping, as if not only their verra lives depended on't, but the hail creation ..."
3. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"... speaking—and there to be sure it's a treat to hear the tañe threeping and the
tither threeping, as if not only their verra lives depended on't, ..."
4. The Port Folio by Joseph Dennie, Asbury Dickins (1827)
"In a word, there was a desperate kick up hetween them, the ane threeping that he
would tak the law of the ither immediately. Na, in this respect Donald gaed ..."
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