Lexicographical Neighbors of Alpeen
Literary usage of Alpeen
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Personal recollections of the late Daniel O'Connell, M.P. by William J. O'Neill Daunt (1848)
"give him a wipe with a cle/i alpeen,* and lay him down as quiet as a child.'
The Judge charged against the first four prisoners, and sentenced them to seven ..."
2. The Token and Atlantic Souvenir: A Christmas and New Year's Present by Samuel Griswold Goodrich (1840)
"... and stood strikin' the ground with his alpeen, and callin' on the good people
to appear for full five minutes before he saw any thing of them. ..."
3. The Atlantic Club-book: Being Sketches in Prose and Verse (1834)
"Stand fairly up to me for half a dozen rounds, fist to fist, and I'll hould the
alpeen till you're tired, after id." " Why look ye here, Matty, ..."
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