Lexicographical Neighbors of Leears
Literary usage of Leears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... 'PLAN-TV o' leears i' PEEBLES FORBYS ME ! Small Personage (aside). Confound him !
Can't cheek him—like CROSS, or sit upon him—ae though he ware ..."
2. Hours in a Library by Leslie Stephen (1904)
"... Walter Scott's grandmother, are "awfu" leears. " Every effort is made to reduce
the strain upon our credulity to that moderate degree of intensity which ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... war a' grit leears, an' wad swear to ony thing that suited them ; but let him
aince get Adam Scott's plain story, an' then he wad ken how matters stood. ..."
4. The Fortnightly Review (1871)
"... the two incredible alternatives that men of science are fallible, or that
mankind in general, like Sir Walter Scott's grandmother, are " awfu' leears. ..."
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