Lexicographical Neighbors of Fillagreed
Literary usage of Fillagreed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1845)
"... and his i in the air ! there, Look, how Cynthia's waning blaze fillagreed her
lustre pours. See her deepening orb descend Every darken'd oak deplores, ..."
2. Embassy to the Eastern Courts of Cochin-China, Siam, and Muscat: In the U. S by Edmund Roberts (1837)
"The king's presents, consisting of silks, elegant watches set in pearls, and very
superior silver fillagreed baskets, with gold rims, and enamelled with ..."
3. Emancipation in the West Indies: A Six Months' Tour in Antigua, Barbadoes by James Armstrong Thome, Joseph Horace Kimball (1838)
"... their hats were of all shapes and sizes, and fillagreed with the most tawdry
superfluity of ribbons. Beneath these gaudy bonnets were glossy ringlets, ..."
4. The Lives and Exploits of Banditti and Robbers in All Parts of the World by Charles MacFarlane (1833)
"Pray what was it ? and did it succeed 1" After searching in his pocket, the
Spaniard produced a curiously-fillagreed silver button, and placed it in the ..."
5. Memoirs of Talleyrand by Stewarton, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1903)
"A most ridiculous decree, since the chief value consisted in the workmanship;
and the quantity of fillagreed and embossed silver which in a shrine was ..."
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