Lexicographical Neighbors of Tippytoes
Literary usage of Tippytoes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eugene Field Book: Verses, Stories, and Letters for School Reading by Mary Elizabeth Burt, Eugene Field (1900)
"... and tippytoes. When he came to the line, "There are little duds to mend," he
recited it, "There are little dudes to mend." The child, being a New York ..."
2. Pinafore Palace: A Book of Rhymes for the Nursery by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith (1907)
"Come, sweet tippytoes, as pink as a rose, And white as a cotton-boll; Let us
follow the plan of the folk in Japan, And dance for your Feast, ..."
3. Pinafore Palace by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin, Nora Archibald Smith (1907)
"Come, sweet tippytoes, as pink as a rose, And white as a cotton-boll ; Let us
follow the plan of the folk in Japan, And dance for your Feast, ..."
4. A Rose of the Old Regime: And Other Poems of Home-love and Childhood by Folger McKinsey (1907)
"But there she goes on her tippytoes, a gray and a gentle gleam. She gathers her
youth about her when she gathers her little shawl 'Round shoulders sweet ..."
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