Lexicographical Neighbors of Jessies
Literary usage of Jessies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Four Years in the Saddle by Harry Gilmor (1866)
"When Glenn fell all the jessies made at me, and, letting my gray horse have his
... I stopped and put up the bars again when the jessies were not more than ..."
2. The Year Book of Daily Recreation and Information: Concerning Remarkable Men ...by William Hone by William Hone (1841)
"All hawks taken upon ' the fist,' the term used for carrying them upon the hand,
had straps of leather called jessies put about their legs ; the jessies ..."
3. Gilbert and Sullivan and Their Operas: With Recollections and Anecdotes of D by François Cellier, Cunningham Bridgeman (1914)
"... Meryll, and Wilfred Shadbolt—The two Savoy jessies—Sullivan's puzzle in
setting " I have a song to sing, O "—Triumph of musical construction—Peppermint ..."
4. Annual Report of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society by Wisconsin State Horticultural Society (1889)
"I have land that is a great deal richer with the Crescents on it; they show the
effects of it. but I don't consider the land that I have those jessies on ..."
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