Lexicographical Neighbors of Sughing
Literary usage of Sughing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"SUEING or sughing. ... And each rude risen tempest, beetling loud, Own'd every
murmur his wild ear to please, sughing its vengeance through the yellow trees ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... Up the burn-hollows borne, combined Soothingly with the sughing pine, Blend
with the shimmering summer leaves Around the swallow-haunted eaves, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... sir, frae nicht till morn—a' thro' the wild sughing hours o' the mirk nichts
о' winter, without ever thinkin' o' spirits in the chape o' whisky ony mair ..."
4. The Recreations of Christopher North: Pseud by John Wilson (1842)
"Surely that was the sughing of wings! A Bird ! alighting within fifty yards of
us—and, from his mode of folding his wings—an Eagle ! ..."
5. Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases by Anne Elizabeth Baker (1854)
"SUEING or sughing. ... And each rude risen tempest, beetling loud, Own'd every
murmur his wild ear to please, sughing its vengeance through the yellow trees ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1864)
"... Up the burn-hollows borne, combined Soothingly with the sughing pine, Blend
with the shimmering summer leaves Around the swallow-haunted eaves, ..."
7. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1830)
"... sir, frae nicht till morn—a' thro' the wild sughing hours o' the mirk nichts
о' winter, without ever thinkin' o' spirits in the chape o' whisky ony mair ..."
8. The Recreations of Christopher North: Pseud by John Wilson (1842)
"Surely that was the sughing of wings! A Bird ! alighting within fifty yards of
us—and, from his mode of folding his wings—an Eagle ! ..."
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