Lexicographical Neighbors of Bluecaps
Literary usage of Bluecaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Magazine of Natural History edited by John Claudius Loudon, Edward Charlesworth, John Denson (1832)
"My father replied — " The little bluecaps are accused of picking off the buds of
the gooseberry bushes; perhaps justly: hence they are destroyed as much as ..."
2. Local Records: Or, Historical Register of Remarkable Events which Have by T. Fordyce (1867)
"Sixty years ago a pair of bluecaps built their nest in a large stone bottle, ...
Every year since that period a pair of bluecaps have regularly built a nest ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"See Buttonweed. Blue Camomile, or Blue Daisy. Aster Tripolium, L., which Ger.
says is so called by ' women that dwell by the seaside.' Kent. bluecaps. ..."
4. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart.. by John Gibson Lockhart (1839)
"Can I not procure you a score of bluecaps who would rather write for us than for
the Edinburgh Review if they got as much pay by it? ..."
5. Scottish Vernacular Literature: A Succinct History by Thomas Finlayson Henderson (1898)
"... not merely by certain specimens of the Scot they met in taverns, but by the
peculiar ditties which those 'bluecaps' were accustomed to ' hollow out. ..."
6. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1891)
"There was something about this same boy Dave, Something we never could understand ;
He came to the war on the first wild wave That billowed the bluecaps ..."
7. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"See Buttonweed. Blue Camomile, or Blue Daisy. Aster Tripolium, L., which Gor.
says is so called by ' women that dwell by the seaside.' Kent. bluecaps. ..."
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