Lexicographical Neighbors of Franknesses
Literary usage of Franknesses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Viagens ethnographicas sul americanas: Argentina by Charmian London, Online Archive of California, Simoens da Silva (1921)
"... have known such franknesses and the penalties you paid. "When I found heart's
desire speaking clamorously to you, I turned my eyes away and strove to go ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1896)
"This is her Book of Verses — wren-like notes, Shy franknesses, blind gropings,
haunting fears; At times across the chords abruptly floats A mist of ..."
3. The World's Best Poetry by Bliss Carman (1904)
"This is her Book of Verses—wren-like notes, Shy franknesses, blind gropings,
haunting fears; At times across the chords abruptly floats A mist of passionate ..."
4. The Best Short Stories of ... and the Yearbook of the American Short Story edited by Edward Joseph Harrington O'Brien (1916)
"It was a curious gesture on the part of a man whose franknesses were as clean-cut
as his silences. " Well — " he began. " I don't know. Perhaps. ..."
5. The Later Nineteenth Century by George Saintsbury (1907)
"It was one of the numerous and rather fatal franknesses of Froude's enemy and
predecessor in the Oxford Chair of History, Edward Augustus Freeman ..."
Other Resources:
