Lexicographical Neighbors of Tiffining
Literary usage of Tiffining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"The lady of the tea-house insisted upon screening us off from the other
pleasure-parties who were tiffining in the same verandah. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1846)
"What a lecturer he would have made for a merry tiffining of the British Association !
"However deeply prejudiced an Englishman may be in favor of his own ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1846)
"... he would have made for a merry tiffining of -the British A asociation ! . , .
'However deeply prejudiced an Englishman may be in favour of h5« o"«i> ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1889)
"... of government actually moves and plays under the control of a mass of statutory
provisions tiffining and limiting the powers of its several organs. ..."
5. Lawyers' Reports Annotated by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company (1905)
"In the elaborate opinion delivered in the trial court in the Sugar tiffining
Case, Judge Barrett lays stress upon the fact that sugar is "a necessary ..."
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