Lexicographical Neighbors of Neezed
Literary usage of Neezed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1889)
"130, it is said: 'There was a plague whereby many as they neezed dyed ...
that they that were present when any man neezed should say, "God helpe you. ..."
2. Observations on the Popular Antiquities of Great Britain: Chiefly by John Brand, Henry Ellis (1901)
"Thus far Sir Thomas Browne. In Langley's Abridgment of Polydore Vergil, fol.
130, it it is said : " There was a plague whereby many as they neezed dyed ..."
3. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke, Benjamin Franklin Collection (Library of Congress), John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress) (1801)
"... upon which I (neezed in his ftce, and mu (le red up courage, and challenged
him to box (for I was then at all in the ring) ; but he thought fit to (end ..."
4. The Greek Reader by Friedrich Jacobs (1851)
"Sneezing, according to circumstances, waa regarded as either a favourable or an
unfavourable omen. Hence the custom of calling out, when a person •neezed, ..."
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