Lexicographical Neighbors of Carfox
Literary usage of Carfox
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1894)
"... o mores l In this month was carfox conduit finisht or rebuilt (except the
upper part which stands upon arches ') and a new statue of empress Maud riding ..."
2. "Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford," Composed in 1661-6 by Anthony à Wood (1889)
"carfox conduit and pipes/ with two notes by the writer of the paper :—' If private
men ... There is a main pipe that bringeth the water to carfox conduit. ..."
3. "Survey of the Antiquities of the City of Oxford," Composed in 1661-6 by Anthony à Wood (1889)
"carfox conduit and pipes,' with two notes by the writer of the paper :—' If
private men ... There is a main pipe that bringeth the water to carfox conduit. ..."
4. A Student's Pastime: Being a Select Series of Articles Reprinted from "Notes by Walter William Skeat (1896)
"... it is easy to see that carfox is a contraction of ... and from carfox comes,
as has been admitted, the modern form Carfax. I propose, therefore, to give ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society (1899)
"... to carfox. Agas has South Street, while South Gate Street, to match North Gate
Street, does not seem to occur. Now we are within the walls, ..."
6. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, Richard Neville-Griffin Braybrooke (1899)
"Dr. Murray, in the New English Dictionary, has furnished an interesting history
both of "carfax" (carfox, ..."
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