Lexicographical Neighbors of Creesing
Literary usage of Creesing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Encyclopædia of Architecture: Historical, Theoretical, and Practical by Joseph Gwilt (1842)
"... and for each flue provide and fix a large-sized chimney mould ; the upper
courses of the shafts above the creesing to be laid in Parker's cement. ..."
2. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... as they are dressing, creesing also our horses. Better order may be hoped five
left in the Factory. Our two Portugall prizes wee by the King of ..."
3. Handbook for Travellers in Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Persia, Etc. by John Murray (Firm), Charles William Wilson (1895)
"... but instead of creesing the Enderes Sn it ascends the valley to Orta K.
(5 hr..). fore the valley narrows, and, after crossing a low bill to ..."
4. The United Service Magazine by Arthur William Alsager Pollock (1853)
"... and creesing like Malays a-muck, preserved a most becoming forbearance, nor
could I imagine a more contemptible enemy than the aforesaid garrison of ..."
5. The Cruise of the Kawa: Wanderings in the South Seas by George Shepard Chappell, Walter E. Traprock, G.P. Putnam's Sons (1921)
"... astrolabe from its aim at the sun— "accordin* to this here jackass-quadrant
we orter be dee-creesing our latitude—but the answer comes out different. ..."
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