Lexicographical Neighbors of Towmont
Literary usage of Towmont
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)
"... A towmont gude ; On Groses Peregrinations. 1 can haud up my head wi' the best
o' the breed, ... towmont ..."
2. Masterpieces of British Literature: Ruskin: Macaulay: Brown: Tennyson by Scuddre, Horace Elisha, 1838-1902 (1895)
"... carefully saved cheese ; fell, biting. 97. aft, often ; guid, good. 99.
towmont, twelvemonth ; sin' lint was i' the bell, since flax was in the flower. ..."
3. Junior High School Literature by William Harris Elson, Christine M. Keck (1922)
"... I'm ready for my bed—and oh, lass," he so gallantly added, "I wish I could
sleep for a towmont, for there's only ae thing in this warld worth living for ..."
4. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1863)
"Both yachts stood over towards the towmont end, the Fairy Queen appearing to be
drawing nway from her opponent, but after passing the ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"That's just what Mr Jaffray said to Coleridge, when walking in the wud wi' him
at Keswick—And yet what does he do a towmont or twa af- ^^ _ _ , . ч i_ ..."
6. 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 (1868)
"Meg,' said a Border farmer to his wife, as he undressed to go to bed, after an
Abbotsford hunt-dinner, ' I wish I could sleep a towmont. ..."
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