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Definition of Banksides
1. bankside [n] - See also: bankside
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banksides
Literary usage of Banksides
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, Cresswell Cresswell (1828)
"That letter relates only to the security which Kensington and Co. had upon the
premises at banksides but Kensington and Co. could not be deprived of that ..."
2. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"... who, as it seems, had the leisure to cast up outworks, and so returned on
board in safety, both going and coming underneath the fort and banksides, ..."
3. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"A small plant with rough, serrated leaves and a white flower, growing in meadows
and banksides.' Nth. Gloss. Wr. We are unable to identify thin. ..."
4. War's Aftermath: A Preliminary Study of the Eugenics of War as Illustrated by David Starr Jordan, Harvey Ernest Jordan (1914)
"... redder with men's hurt, Its ravaged banksides blue with violets; From withering
venom of its flames of Hell, I see a sad procession creeping down, ..."
5. Paxton's Magazine of Botany, and Register of Flowering Plants by Joseph Paxton (1836)
"... flat, or damp; hut if planted on banksides, under the walls of hothouses, or
other dry situations, this precaution will scarcely be necessary. ..."
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