Lexicographical Neighbors of Crining
Literary usage of Crining
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Christian Examiner (1857)
"... atrocious " road and of plants crining " to the size of rose-hips," takes for
granted that ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"... ее,1 Came crining in and lookit around, But his look was hoj>eless as could be.
He laid his head on that lady's knee. An' he lookit as somebody he would ..."
3. The modern Scottish minstrel; or, The songs of Scotland of the past half by Charles Rogers (1855)
"... How draggled their cover, How their nostrils run over With drippings of brine,
So scraggy and crining In the cold frost they pine. ..."
4. Poems of Wild Life by Charles George Douglas Roberts (1888)
"... How lean-backed they shiver, How draggled they cower, How their nostrils run
owre With drippings of brine, So scraggy and crining In the cold frost they ..."
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