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Definition of Hostries
1. hostry [n] - See also: hostry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hostries
Literary usage of Hostries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1845)
"Which would abide the touch ; and by the way, In all their hostries they would
freely pay. But parted thence, mine host thinking to find Those glorious ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"All the way is set with Trees, paved with stones, frequent with hostries, as
secure by night as by day, both by the Magistrates had alway shewed countenance ..."
3. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"When any abbots and lords travelled through this lord's manors, his farm houses
were their inns, and his granaries their hostries. 130. ..."
4. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"All the way is set with Trees, paved with stones, frequent with hostries, as
secure by night as by day, ..."
5. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"All the way is set with Trees, paved with stones, frequent with hostries, as
secure by night as by day, ..."
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