Lexicographical Neighbors of Amisses
Literary usage of Amisses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Book of Days: A Miscellany of Popular Antiquities in Connection with the by Robert Chambers (1832)
"... comedian that shall speak his part in a tone as if he did it in derision of
some of the pious, but reform all our disorders and amend all our amisses. ..."
2. The rural life of England by William Howitt (1838)
"In some churches Mary Magdalene, Mary of Bethany, and Mary of Nain, were represented
by three deacons clothed in dalmatics and amisses, with their heads in ..."
3. A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes by Henry Sampson (1875)
"... comedian that shall speak his part in a tone as if he did it in derision of
some of the pious, but reform all our disorders and amend all our amisses. ..."
4. More Lyrics from the Song-books of the Elizabethan Age by Arthur Henry Bullen (1888)
"Wherefore of love I ask this meed, To bring you where you did this deed, That
there you may, for your amisses* Be damaged in a thousand kisses. ..."
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