Lexicographical Neighbors of Twanglers
Literary usage of Twanglers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1888)
"Those old Greek singers had an eye for truth ; And that is something more than
one can say For sentimental twanglers of to-day. Then Lachesis ! ..."
2. The Complete Works of John Lyly by John Lyly, Richard Warwick Bond (1902)
"What a mischiefe make the twanglers here? we haue no trenchers to scrape : it
makes my teeth on edge to heare such grating. 25 Get you packing! or He make ..."
3. Woman in India by Mary Frances Billington (1895)
"... in skins of bear and deer, The tiger-tamers, wrestlers, quail-fighters, Beaters
of drum and twanglers of the wire, Who make the people happy by command. ..."
4. The Industrial Arts of India by George Christopher Molesworth Birdwood (1884)
"The masquers wrapped in skins of bear and deer, The tiger tamers, wrestlers,
quail fighters, Beaters of drum, and twanglers of the wire, Who make the people ..."
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