Lexicographical Neighbors of Sampire
Literary usage of Sampire
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"... down Hangs one that gathers sampire ; dreadful trade P* It is not uncommon in
... (or rather sampire, as it is a corruption of the French Saint Pierre), ..."
2. Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a Lady by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Martyn (1787)
"sampire*- has the umbel not flat, or hollow like the la.ft, ... trouble on the
beach, but which has none of the warm, aromatic quality of the sampire. ..."
3. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"... down Hangs one that gathers sampire ; dreadful trade P* It is not uncommon in
... (or rather sampire, as it is a corruption of the French Saint Pierre), ..."
4. Letters on the Elements of Botany: Addressed to a Lady by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Thomas Martyn (1787)
"sampire*- has the umbel not flat, or hollow like the la.ft, ... trouble on the
beach, but which has none of the warm, aromatic quality of the sampire. ..."
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