Lexicographical Neighbors of Cantings
Literary usage of Cantings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (1849)
"... and complains of his cantings, with other Scurrilous Expressions, which shew
what Conscience he makes of the fifth Commandment — A Moral Heathen would ..."
2. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"Friedrich Wilhelm is amazed at these sudden cantings of Fortune's wheel, and
grieves honestly as for an old friend: even the Crown- Prince finds Seckendorf ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"Friedrich Wilhelm is amazed at these sudden cantings of Fortune's wheel, and
grieves honestly as for an old friend: even the Crown-Prince finds Seckendorf ..."
4. History of Friedrich II of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"Friedrich Wilhelm is amazed at these sudden cantings of Fortune's wheel, and
grieves honestly as for an old friend: even the Crown-Prince finds Seckendorf ..."
5. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"There sits he; and will not trouble us any more during the present Kaiser's lifetime.
Friedrich Wilhelm is amazed at these sudden cantings of Fortune's ..."
6. The Gentleman's Magazine (1837)
"Upon this (fanaticism) they insisted still, and filled their books and pulpits
and private corners with these cantings. This was the engine to overthrow all ..."
7. Diary, of Thomas Burton, Esq. Member in the Parliaments of Oliver and by Thomas Burton, Goddard, Guibon (1828)
"... wherein the gentlemen have taken great pains, and the Report is foul enough;
and what he said at the bar I could not comprehend. They were all cantings ..."
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