Lexicographical Neighbors of Honging
Literary usage of Honging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg (1918)
"Summer mornings I smell new wood and the river wind along with peaches. I listen
to the steamboat whistle hong-honging, ..."
2. Miscellanea Genealogica Et Heraldica by Joseph Jackson Howard (1902)
"When ye Church of S' Giles in the fields in the Suburbs of London was rebuilt
she gave to it 100". Also she bestowed fair honging of blew ..."
3. A History of English Prosody from the Twelfth Century to the Present Day by George Saintsbury (1906)
"... in the graves The silver droppes honging on the leves. Lydgate in Story of
Thebes, 1250 sy., writes— Ther he lay to the larke song With notes newe hegh ..."
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