Lexicographical Neighbors of Shivarees
Literary usage of Shivarees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Debates in American Hist: From the Debates in the British Parliament by United States Congress, Great Britain Parliament, Marion Mills Miller (1913)
"Veto Is Sustained—Whig Mob "shivarees" the President While Democratic Congressmen
Are Congratulating Him—Humorous Remarks by Senator Clay on the ..."
2. Famous Composers and Their Works by Philip Hale, Louis Charles Elson (1900)
"... particularly in the songs of worship and the camp- fire shivarees — the time
of the actual march songs could well be kept by what military folk call the ..."
3. The Real New York by Rupert Hughes (1904)
"Reminds me of one of the shivarees we used to serenade bridal couples with in
Illinois," said Joyce. "Only instrument lacking seems to be a tomato can on a ..."
4. Lonesome Land by B. M. Bower, Stanley Wood, Little, Brown and Company, University Press (Cambridge, Mass.) (1912)
"But if I had a headache — like that —I'd certainly burn the earth getting outa
town to-night. ' shivarees" — he stuck stubbornly to his own way of saying it ..."
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