Lexicographical Neighbors of Dantoning
Literary usage of Dantoning
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Miscellaneous Prose Works of Sir Walter Scott...: in twenty-eight by Walter Scott (1848)
"And although this, and other examples of severity, had the effect for the time,
as the Scottish phrase is, of “dantoning the thieves of the Borders, ..."
2. The New Review edited by Archibald Grove, William Ernest Henley (1897)
"Now and again the Sovereign himself made a progress, administering a rough and
ready justice, and so " dantoning the thieves of the Borders, and making the ..."
3. Sketches of Scottish Church History from the Reformation to the Revolution by Thomas Mac Crie, Thomas McCrie (1849)
"... he said to Mr. Livingstone: "John, I have been a rude stunkard man all my
days, and now by this pain the Lord is dantoning (subduing) me, ..."
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