Lexicographical Neighbors of Smeuses
Literary usage of Smeuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shooting by Horatio Gordon Hutchinson (1903)
"We recommend the same fence, with the same smeuses, as described before, not
omitting the ... You can adjust the pin in the smeuses when you like, and can, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1869)
"There are some scars and bits of boulders, and plumps of trees and smeuses in
plenty. Mr. Benn, late steward to the Earl of Lowther, was a very good courser ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1846)
"... middle-sized hound smeuses to his fox much quicker, the former sort giving a
wide-awake Charley, fully a quarter of an hour's lead sometimes, ..."
4. The Hare: Natural History by Hugh Alexander Macpherson, Gerald Lascelles, Charles Richardson, J. S. Gibbons, G. H. Longman, Kenney Herbert (1896)
"Many are his contrivances, the first and simplest being the ordinary wire snare,
set in the ' smeuses' of the fence. Simple as this device is, ..."
5. The Hare: Natural History by Hugh Alexander Macpherson, Charles Richardson, J. S. Gibbons, G. H. Longman, Kenney Herbert (1896)
"Many are his contrivances, the first and simplest being the ordinary wire snare,
set in the ' smeuses' of the fence. Simple as this device is, ..."
6. Hunting by John Otho Paget (1900)
"A hare that has been bustled and is getting wide of the smeuses she knows may do
anything, and it is never safe to predict what she will do next. ..."
7. Hunting by John Otho Paget (1900)
"A hare that has been bustled and is getting wide of the smeuses she knows may do
anything, and it is never safe to predict what she will do next. ..."
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