Lexicographical Neighbors of Bernicles
Literary usage of Bernicles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Half-hours with the Best French Authors: Short Passages from Some of the by Émile Antoine Bayard (1867)
"The bernicles are formed of two pieces of wood bent, indented at the ends, and
fit one into the other, and are fastened with strong straps of leather at the ..."
2. Things Not Generally Known: Curiosities of History by John Timbs (1858)
"Barnacles, or bernicles, appear to be first mentioned by Joinville, the chronicler
of St. Louis : " And the Saracens, seeing that the king would not comply ..."
3. Narratives of New Netherland, 1609-1664 by John Franklin Jameson (1909)
"There are large quantities of bernicles, which keep along the saltwater shore,
... The geese and bernicles come here in September and leave in April. ..."
4. Chronicles of the Crusades: Contemporary Narratives of the Crusade of by Richard (1903)
"The bernicles are formed of two thick blocks of wood, fastened together at the
top; and when they use this mode of torture, they lay the person on his side, ..."
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