Lexicographical Neighbors of Troules
Literary usage of Troules
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... Such as the tyrant that troules devises, Fishes nere believe his fable, What
he calls a line is a cable; That's a knave of endlesse rancor, ..."
2. Memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall by William Darlington, Peter Collinson (1849)
"His Daisy, or double mountain Ranunculus [Anemone thalic- troules, L.], is a
pretty thing. * * * * I received the specimens of Sweet and Sour Gum. ..."
3. The Works of John Marston by John Marston (1856)
"Whose free-borne minds no kennell thought cm- troules, Ye sacred spirits, Mayas
eldest sonnes— 2. Tee substance of the shadowes of our age, ..."
4. The Complete Angler: Or the Contemplative Man's Recreation, Being a by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1875)
"... the Commons complained that in the Thames, Medway, and other great rivers,
there was an abundance of the fry of fish, that is to say, of " troules, ..."
5. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1809)
"Be your fish in oven thrust, And your owne Red-paste the crust. Breake thy rod,
Ice. Hookes and lines of larger sizes, Such as the tyrant that troules ..."
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