Lexicographical Neighbors of Droiling
Literary usage of Droiling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A Selection of the Choicest Productions by Robert Chambers (1847)
"... to refresh The «pirita of all flesh ; Tie toiling ploughman drives his thirsty
teams, Tie droiling swineherd knocks away, and feasts His hungry whining ..."
2. Minor Poets of the Caroline Period by George Saintsbury (1905)
"345 droiling] =' drudging.' not very uncommon both as noun and verb in seventeenth
century. Note the conceit in next line. ..."
3. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1900)
"... forgot her heavenly flight, and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on
in the old road, and drudging trade of outward conformity. ..."
4. Milton by Walter Alexander Raleigh (1900)
"... forgot her heavenly flight, and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on
in the old road and drudging trade of outward conformity. ..."
5. History of England from the Accession of James I to the Outbreak of the by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1904)
"... her heavenly flight, and left the dull and droiling carcase to plod on in the
old road and drudging trade of outward conformity. ..."
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