Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantest
Literary usage of Cantest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Eastern, Or Old World: Embracing Ancient and Modern History by Henry Howard Brownell (1862)
"The Emperor Maximilian, perceiving the resolute genius of the enthusiast, and
the weight which he would carry in a cantest with the papal power, ..."
2. The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872 by Thomas Carlyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Charles Eliot Norton (1883)
"... divine man ! thou cantest never. Finally we have not — a dull word. Never was
there a style so rapid as yours, — which no reader can outrun; ..."
3. The Cruise of the Betsey: Or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous by Hugh Miller (1860)
"But the cantest of which it was the scene belongs to a profoundly dark period,
ere the gray dawn of Scottish history began. As shown by the remains of ..."
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