Lexicographical Neighbors of Killcrops
Literary usage of Killcrops
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southey's Common-place Book by Robert Southey (1876)
"killcrops. " THE Divel can also steal children away, as sometimes children ...
Of the Saxons they were called killcrops. " Eight years since," said Luther, ..."
2. The Magazine of American History with Notes and Queries by John Austin Stevens, Benjamin Franklin DeCosta, Martha Joanna Lamb, Henry Phelps Johnston, Nathan Gilbert Pond, William Abbatt (1884)
"For such a small edifice it has a prodigious swallow, and reminds me of those
little fairy changelings called killcrops, which eat and eat and are never the ..."
3. Leading American Essayists by William Morton Payne (1910)
"... edifice it has a prodigious swallow, and reminds me of those little fairy
changelings called killcrops, which eat and eat, and are never the fatter. ..."
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