Lexicographical Neighbors of Kirkings
Literary usage of Kirkings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sermons, on Philosophical, Evangelical, and Practical Subjects: Designed for by Eli Meeker (1827)
"Then when overt acts, disgrace any of our fellow- mortals, let UB inquire of our
own hearts, if we cherish the secret kirkings of such a principle ..."
2. Noctes Ambrosianæ by John Wilson, Robert Shelton Mackenzie, James Hogg, William Maginn, John Gibson Lockhart (1867)
"... kirkings, and Christenings," too ; and then I thought of " Dreams, Drams, and
Dragoons"—but I fixed at last on three L's. ..."
3. The Weavers' Craft: Being a History of the Weavers' Incorporation of by Daniel Thomson (1903)
"... marriages, kirkings, marketings, and all sorts of bargain making, and domestic
arranging, the bottle, the " greybeard " and the " quaich " were bound to ..."
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