Lexicographical Neighbors of Pegless
Literary usage of Pegless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1842)
"The description of New York—including the prison of " Tombs," with its cells so
gloomy as to have induced the authorities to render them pegless, ..."
2. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1862)
"The editor of these sketches will not attempt to decide whether the Goban or
Julius Caesar was the inventor of the pegless and ..."
3. Demonology and Devil-lore by Moncure Daniel Conway (1879)
"He relieved puzzled carpenters by putting up for them the pegless and nailless
bridge described in Caesar's Commentaries. Having done various great things, ..."
4. Editorials and Editorial-writing by Robert Wilson Neal (1921)
"Nevertheless, examination will show that many editorials apparently pegless, in
reality have a peg in the fact that the public is at the moment especially ..."
5. Editorials and Editorial-writing by Robert Wilson Neal (1921)
"Nevertheless, examination will show that many editorials apparently pegless, in
reality have a peg in the fact that the public is at the moment especially ..."
6. Social Antagonisms by Arland Deyett Weeks (1918)
"There are too many square pegs in round holes and round pegs in square holes,
and altogether too many holeless pegs and pegless holes, in the world to ..."
7. Old Mother Earth: Her High-ways and By-ways by Josephine Simpson (1890)
"... her music is beyond the range of mortal ear. I wonder if the angels like it!
Whether we hear it or not, she spins round and round on her pegless end, ..."
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