Lexicographical Neighbors of Spreds
Literary usage of Spreds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"strab. i. it spreds in Armenia; which in Strabo's descrip- vei 791. tion consists
... Contracted then, on the north of Media, it spreds again in advancing ..."
2. The History of Greece by William Mitford (1823)
"Comparatively narrow within Lesser Asia, strab.i. it spreds in Armenia; ...
Contracted then, on the north of Media, it spreds again in advancing toward ..."
3. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1902)
"... Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil, Nor in the glistering foil Set
off to th'world, nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreds aloft by ..."
4. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1908)
"... nor in broad rumour lies, But lives and spreds aloft by those pure eyes, And
perfet witnes of all judging Jove; As he pronounces lastly on each deed, ..."
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