Lexicographical Neighbors of Spighting
Literary usage of Spighting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Censura Literaria: Containing Titles, Abstracts, and Opinions of Old English by Egerton Brydges (1815)
"... and tooke the matter gre- uously, spighting (as commonly in like cases it
falleth out) to haue a nation hard vnder theyr noses to bee rulers ouer them, ..."
2. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1814)
"... And spighting at this hopefull match, began To wreak their wrath on Ayre,
Earth, Sea, and Man. Some, having shapes of Romish ..."
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