Lexicographical Neighbors of Gingerliness
Literary usage of Gingerliness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. French Traits: An Essay in Comparative Criticism by William Crary Brownell (1889)
"... seeing another person handle it with triumphant gingerliness does not unsettle
such a conviction—the double-entente becomes irretrievably 'dreary. ..."
2. French Traits: An Essay in Comparative Criticism by William Crary Brownell (1889)
"... seeing another person handle it with triumphant gingerliness does not unsettle
such a conviction—the ' double-entendre' becomes irretrievably 'dreary. ..."
3. Woman: In All Ages and in All Countries by Edward Bagby Pollard, Mitchell Carroll, Alfred Brittain, Pierce Butler, John Robert Effinger, Hugo Paul Thieme, Hermann Schoenfeld, Bartlett Burleigh James, John Ruse Larus (1908)
"Young unmarried women loved "to show coyness in gestures, mince in words and
speeches, gingerliness in tripping on toes like young goats, demure nicety and ..."
4. Philosophy and Theology: Being the First Edinburgh University Gifford Lectures by James Hutchison Stirling (1890)
"After so much gingerliness on the part of so many of the dearest friends of Hume,
one expects to find something very dreadful in the book. ..."
5. People's Banks: A Record of Social and Economic Success by Henry William Wolff (1896)
"... which do not usually err on the side of gingerliness. What the Prince's "
blood and iron" could not accomplish, co-operative gold and ..."
6. Putnam's & the Reader (1909)
"Whatever suggestion of obituary amenity there may be in his presentation of the
man, there is no gingerliness in his critical attitude toward the writer. ..."
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