Lexicographical Neighbors of Oliphants
Literary usage of Oliphants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Women Writers: Their Works and Ways by Catherine Jane Hamilton (1892)
"The oliphants—" Sturdy little Car "—Jacobite associations—The Flower of ...
The oliphants, of Gask, her father's race—the Robertsons, of Strowan, ..."
2. The Jacobite Lairds of Gask by Thomas Laurence Kington-Oliphant (1870)
"The oliphants had now resolved to brave the Government and go home. ... The oliphants
lived very quietly, saw none but their especial friends, ..."
3. The 18th Hussars in South Africa: The Records of a Cavalry Regiment During by Charles Burnett (1905)
"Miles 17 i5 15 19 9 14 6 If 12 6 i- 12 II 12 t8 6 Groot oliphants' River ii
Middelburg ... 12 Total mileage ... 223 No. 5.—From Middelburg to Carolina and ..."
4. The Celtic Magazine by Alexander Mackenzie, Alexander Macgregor, Alexander Macbain (1880)
"The exemption of the lands of the oliphants in Caithness from the heritable
jurisdiction of the Earl of Caithness—a jurisdiction not abolished at the time ..."
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