Lexicographical Neighbors of Leechees
Literary usage of Leechees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1847)
"It is used to decorate tlie hair are however excellent, the climate suiting the
wealthy. Various other shrubs, such -uu!i as leechees, ..."
2. Narrative of a journey through the upper provinces of India, from Calcutta by Reginald Heber (1828)
"Of the fruits which this season offers, the finest are leechees, and mangoes;
the first is really very fine, being a sort of plum, with the flavour of a ..."
3. Three Years' Wanderings in the Northern Provinces of China: Including a by Robert Fortune (1847)
"... to what we have in England; the peaches are curiously formed, but worthless.
What may be more properly called Chinese fruits, such as leechees, longans, ..."
4. Warren Hastings: A Biography by Lionel James Trotter (1878)
"... leechees, and other fruit dear to the memory of retired " old Indians."
Meanwhile his dear friend, David Anderson, who had followed him home from India, ..."
5. Narrative of a Voyage Round the World: Performed in Her Majesty's Ship by Edward Belcher, Richard Brinsley Hinds, Great Britain Admiralty (1872)
"However, the fish—" samli," I think—was good, and the " leechees" were nice ;
and we were soon ready to go out again. Permission had been got to go into the ..."
6. Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (1878)
"... with me in holding that in the matter of fruit the East can bear no comparison
with the West. Not all the mangoes, leechees, guavas, custard-apples, ..."
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