Lexicographical Neighbors of Measling
Literary usage of Measling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1878)
"... for measling and stench. 24 Now pluck vp thy hempe, and go beat out the seed,
and afterward water it as ye see need: But not in the riuer where cattle ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1897)
"Why don't you offer to do the measling yourself ? A dark room and gruel, and only
Mother to talk to! Wouldn't it be jolly! Perhaps it would improve your ..."
3. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1895)
"He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutch and all; and he leaves you measling
in the hold, where nobody can't see you, nor wants to, and you may lay ..."
4. Philosophy and Life: And Other Essays by John Henry Muirhead (1902)
"He keeps me on deck mostly all the time, crutches and all! and he leaves you
measling in the hold where nobody can't see you, nor wants to, and you may lay ..."
5. Abeokuta and the Camaroons Mountains: An Exploration by Richard Francis Burton (1863)
"... and the sand-flies, no longer measling our hands and faces, had remained below.
A lovely morning, the ' Smile of God,' when the wondrous disc of light ..."
6. Five Hundred Pointes of Good Husbandrie by Thomas Tusser (1878)
"... for measling and stench. 1\ Now pluck vp thy hempe, and go beat out the seed,
and afterward water it as ye see need: But not in the riuer where cattle ..."
7. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: As Well for the Champion Or Open by Thomas Tusser, William Fordyce Mavor (1812)
"... my dairy good wench, Make cleanly his cabin, for measling and stench'.
Gathering of 24 Now pluck up thy hemp, and go beat out the ..."
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