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Definition of Swans
1. swan [v] - See also: swan
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swans
Literary usage of Swans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by New York Zoological Society, Tennyson Society (1906)
"To-day only seven species of swans inhabit the earth,* and of the tens of thousands
of swans which must have lived and died in the past, fragmentary bones ..."
2. A Treatise of the Law of Waters: Including the Law Relating to Rights in the by Humphry William Woolrych (1853)
"(5) Another royal perquisite is to have swans, which swim upon the sea, or upon
its branches.(r) And the same rule prevails upon rivers. ..."
3. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"Some are the black Australian variety, but the majority are white European or
American swans. As one watches them gliding about the mirror-like surface, ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany: Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"YOUR Deputy, Master Loggins, hearing that I had some ancient notes of the customs
and orders concerning swans, desired me, that you might have a sight of ..."
5. Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge by Charles Knight (1842)
"Thus the abbot of Abbotsbury in Dorsetshire had a game of wild swans in the ...
The privilege of having a swan-mark, or game of swans, is a freehold of ..."
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