Lexicographical Neighbors of Somersetting
Literary usage of Somersetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1821)
"... business has excited, in its exhibition much resembling the Saturnalia, or a
Feast of Fools. It has been a perfect revelry of tumbling and somersetting, ..."
2. Carolina Sports by Land and Water: Including Devil-fishing, Wild-cat, Deer by William Elliott (1867)
"They did not show themselves somersetting for some time, but after a while, began
to sport, and throw somersets under the water, but so near to the surface ..."
3. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"... in autumn 1825, rode triumphant into Potosí and the fabulous Inca Cities, with
clouds of feathered Indians somersetting and war-whooping round him,*—and ..."
4. The Eclectic Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art by John Holmes Agnew, Eliakim Littell (1843)
"... in autumn 1825, rode triumphant into Potosí and the fabulous Inca Cities, with
clouds of feathered Indians somersetting and war-whooping round him,*—and ..."
5. The Birds of Jamaica by Philip Henry Gosse, Richard Hill (1847)
"... are they seen so full of clatter, and so cheerful as in the months of November
and December; they then tease each other, and dash along somersetting ..."
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