Lexicographical Neighbors of Couter
Literary usage of Couter
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Improved French Grammar: Containing a New Method of Discovering the by John B. Ricord Madianna (1812)
"The past participles of the verbs convenir, to be proper, to suit, couter, to
cost, vivre, to live, valoir, to be worth, are always indeclinable. ..."
2. The French Verb: Its Conjugation and Idiomatic Use by Charles Fletcher Martin (1910)
"couter la vie, couter de la peine. Rien ne lui coute. ... couter les yeux de la
tete. To cost a small fortune (a fearful lot). Couvrir (tr.). ..."
3. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"HALF A couter = half-a-sove- reign. 1857. SNOWDEN, Mag. Assistant (3 ed.), p.
... Well, he gave us half a couter at all events,' pleaded John in mitigation. ..."
4. Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter Macfarlane by Walter Macfarlane (1908)
"... lying upon the Northside of the Rivers of Port ne couter, ... couter, some
banks or Beds of sand. At these times the common sort of the Inhabitants do ..."
5. Annals of the Wars of the Eighteenth Century: Compiled from the Most by Edward Cust (1862)
"In the valley, on the opposite hauk of the rivulet, is the village of Mullem,
and the "couter "un this hank of the Norken is divided into two by a stream ..."
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