Lexicographical Neighbors of Dinnered
Literary usage of Dinnered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1886)
"In Eden you are breakfasted and dinnered and picnicked into the idea that you
are some very important factor indeed in the sum of things, and have only to ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"I fear the next cage of Trans-atlantic birds will not run much chance of being
very liberally dinnered and ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1822)
"Why, the English Tories would have laughed at it, and the Scotch Tories would
have joined trembling with their mirth—and Jamie Hogg would have been dinnered ..."
4. Timothy Flint, Pioneer, Missionary, Author, Editor, 1780-1840: The Story of by John Ervin Kirkpatrick (1911)
"... to open an account at the local bank, "she would have been dinnered and toasted
and the fashion. . . America would have been an ocean of milk and honey. ..."
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