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Definition of Softlings
1. softling [n] - See also: softling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Softlings
Literary usage of Softlings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1851)
"Such softlings take delight In Cynthia's sickly beam — Give me a heav'n of coal
black night Slash'd with the watch-fire gleam. " They doat upon the lute, ..."
2. The Complete Works of Joshuah Sylvester: For the First Time Collected and by Josuah Sylvester, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, Odet de La Noue, Henry Smith (1880)
"In stead of softlings jests, and jollities, He joyes in Jousts, and manly exercise :
His dainty cates, a fat Kid's trembling flesh, Scarce fully slain, ..."
3. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1883)
"... lies before us offers the suggestion that God must avoid growing a race
of "softlings," "cravens," "infants," hence the need of the rule de rigueur. ..."
4. The Christian Science Journal by Mary Baker Eddy (1908)
"... lies before us offers the suggestion that God must avoid growing a race
of "softlings," "cravens," "infants," hence the need of the rule de rigueur. ..."
5. Missions and Modern History: A Study of the Missionary Aspects of Some Great by Robert Elliott Speer (1904)
"... with anything and the absence of the robustness of definite truth and solid
principle which make Babism attractive to many moral softlings in the West. ..."
6. Life and Letters of W. A. Passavant, D. D. by George Henry Gerberding, William Alfred Passavant (1906)
"Not softlings nor idlers nor imbeciles, nor drones who need to be coddled and
shamed and scolded to get them moved, but boys and men who have life in them, ..."
7. The Catechism of Thomas Becon ...: With Other Pieces Written by Him the in by Thomas Becon, John Ayre (1844)
"For neither whoremongers, nor worshippers of images, nor adulterers, nor softlings,
nor Sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous persons, nor drunkards, ..."
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