Lexicographical Neighbors of Displing
Literary usage of Displing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Sir Egerton Brydges (1809)
"... lie tel you plaine, the matter is fresh, They gin in sprite, but end in flesh.
A displing rod must needs be had; Good Martins say not so; ..."
2. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... Good Martins say not so; This displing rod, will make you nod, , And cause
your heads to grow: Get home, keepe house, ware tounes so pure: Their zeale ..."
3. Pennsylvania Archives by Pennsylvania Dept. of public instruction, Pennsylvania State library, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State Library (1890)
"... on every late occasion, has exhibited signal Proofs how much may be expected
from their valour, Improved.as it is, by displing, ..."
4. A Bibliographical and Critical Account of the Rarest Books in the English by J(ohn) Payne Collier (1866)
"... wherefore, mo seemeth, there should he no more difference hetween the displing
of this vaine ..."
5. A Guide to the Manuscripts, Autographs, Charters, Seals, Illuminations and by British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Edward John Long Scott (1899)
"After discriminating between various grades of aberration on the part of members,
she concludes by advising them to " let this my displing [discipline] ..."
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