Lexicographical Neighbors of Headmarks
Literary usage of Headmarks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The University of Hard Knocks: The School that Completes Our Education by Ralph Albert Parlette (1917)
"Birthdays and headmarks Yesterday I had a birthday. ... Gray hairs are silver
headmarks in our education as we go on south. You children cheer up. ..."
2. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (2000)
"... and give you such a lot of headmarks, stern-marks, and side-marks to guide
you, that you ought to be able to take the boat there and put her in that ..."
3. Masters of the English Novel: A Study of Principles and Personalities by Richard Burton (1909)
"To study the peerlessly pathetic tale of Effie and Jeanie Deans is to see Scott
at his representative best and note the headmarks of his genius: it is safe ..."
4. Words; Their Use and Abuse by William Mathews (1876)
"Many of the happiest of these headmarks, which stick like a burr from the moment
they are invented, are from sources utterly unknown; they appear, ..."
5. History of Ancient Woodbury, Connecticut: From the First Indian Deed in 1659 by William Cothren (1872)
"Almost everywhere around, a little apart from the road, I can see the tell-tale
mounds, without headmarks, where some poor fellow has been tucked away. ..."
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