Lexicographical Neighbors of Soomed
Literary usage of Soomed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... I sworn across the loch at the widest at ae stretch; and ever after that could
hae soomed ony man in the forest for a wager, except Mr. David Ballantyne ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1893)
"He made some ill- judged remarks on my books and pre- soomed to correct my
pronunciation according to some conventional rule he had been taught. ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... and soomed owre its lochs. I ance saved his life—I glory in tell'n't—when some
cursed kelpie had bund his legs wi' the cords o' the ..."
4. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"That Babel over, the Chairman sed he pre- soomed some one shood be selected to
prepare a address; whereupon every delegate rose, and pulled a roll uv ..."
5. History of the United States of America, Under the Constitution by James Schouler (1894)
"On the Bank subject ho spoke, so it soomed, like a good Whig, but there was a
snake of subtle reservation underneath. The sub-treasury he abhorred, ..."
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