Lexicographical Neighbors of Javelined
Literary usage of Javelined
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... First torrent stones with might and main they hurled, Scaling a rock, their
counter bastion, And javelined him with branches of the pine: And others ..."
2. The Badminton Magazine of Sports & Pastimes edited by Alfred Edward Thomas Watson (1900)
"... him with racquet-bats and shovels; in the second, the miserable 'John' was
tied up to one of the ventilators in the room and then javelined with forks; ..."
3. The Agony Column of the "Times" 1800-1870 by Alice Clay (1881)
"... Rome's javelined gladiator, and London's belted champion, were never lighter
of foot, nor stronger of nerve, than Fortune's spoilt and favourite child. ..."
4. The Poets' Beasts: A Sequel to "The Poets' Birds," by Philip Stewart Robinson (1885)
"... when, if you had gone after the same beast in armour, javelined, and sworded,
you might have been a hero. Look at your trophies of tushes and lament. ..."
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