Lexicographical Neighbors of Towmond
Literary usage of Towmond
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"The Vision. Towering. 1 see her wave thy towering plumes afar, Ef.fr. Esopus.
He'll shade my banks wi' towering trees The Petition of Br. Water. towmond ..."
2. A Dictionary of Lowland Scotch: With an Introductory Chapter Onthe Poetry by Charles Mackay (1888)
"towmond, a twelvemonth. ... and plovers were rife, For mony a long towmond together
There lived an auld man an' his wife. ..."
3. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"In brew leather boot* shining I lack a« the slae, I dink me to try the ridin' o't.
Last towmond I sell'd off four bowes o' guid bore, ..."
4. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1922)
"09. towmond, twelvemonth, sin' lint was Г the bell, since flax was in flower.
103. ha' Bible, hall Bible, family Bible. ..."
5. Longer English Poems by John Wesley Hales (1884)
"... fell has only a bad sense, and is applied only to living things and to feelings
and actions, or to other things with a moral reference. 99. towmond ..."
6. Observations on Several Parts of Great Britain, Particularly the High-lands by William Gilpin (1808)
"3 How 'twas a towmond auld Jin lint wot i' the IM. That it was a year old, when
flax was in bloom. The vegetation of different plants makes the common ..."
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