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Definition of Tantaras
1. tantara [n] - See also: tantara
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tantaras
Literary usage of Tantaras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Report on the Manuscripts of F. W. Leyborne-Popham, Esq., Littlecote, Co. Wilts by Francis William Leyborne-Popham, Edward Popham, William Clarke, George Clarke, John Collins (1899)
"That favour, which in justice he may crave, To know from whence you have this
certain ground Whereon so confidently to resound Such high tantaras ? ..."
2. Report on the Manuscripts of F. W. Leyborne-Popham, Esq., Littlecote, Co. Wilts by Francis William Leyborne-Popham, Edward Popham, William Clarke, George Clarke, John Collins, Sophia Crawford Lomas (1899)
"... To know from whence you have this certain ground Whereon so confidently to
resound Such high tantaras ? Did you know the man, Or his transactions? ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"The baying of the slow-hound and the tantaras of the horn died away further and
fainter toward the blue Atlantic. ..."
4. Novels, Poems and Letters of Charles Kingsley by Charles Kingsley (1899)
"And on they crashed down the Hartland glens, through the oak-scrub and the great
crown-ferns; and the baying of the slow-hound and the tantaras ..."
5. Fores's Sporting Notes & Sketches. a Quarterly Magazine Descriptive of (1892)
"... and with ' tantaras ' from the different horns, added to the crash of hounds
just unleashed and scoring to cry, the chase began in a perfect riot of ..."
6. Occasional Papers for M.E.D.S. in MDCCCLXXIX. by Homer Hine Stuart, Benjamin Frank Severance, Inglis Stuart (1880)
"... gliding apace along rails laid on granite sleepers while tantaras from
the "engineer's horn evoked echoes on those pleasant fields of Maryland. ..."
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