Lexicographical Neighbors of Jawings
Literary usage of Jawings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ruskin, Rossetti, Preraphaelitism: Papers 1854 to 1862 by William Michael Rossetti (1899)
"... So as yet let us hope That instead of a rope The worthy old scoundrel May
retain his all-round gill. But as to his doings And jawings and ..."
2. Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, at the First Session by William Pitt Fessenden, Thaddeus Stevens (1866)
"... by refusal to trade with them, and sometimes some bickerings and jawings ;
though our people have not used any violence even when they felt like it, ..."
3. Traits of American Humor by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1852)
"But, it was always so—when I was a little boy, they coaxed all my pennies out of
me; coaxed me to take all the jawings, and all the hidings, and to go first ..."
4. Traits of American Humour by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1852)
"But, it was always so—when I was a little boy, they coaxed all my pennies out of
me; coaxed me to take all the jawings, and all the hidings, and to go first ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"There were jawings, bickerings, heartburnings. And at last that other collector,
with a malignity which only a collector can ever feel toward a man and a ..."
6. Extracts from the Records of the Burgh of Glasgow ... A. D. 1573-17 by Glasgow (Scotland), James David Marwick, Robert Renwick (1908)
"... prohibit and discharge the throwing or casting out of houses or windows upon
the streets, lanes or dosses any jawings, filth or dirt, and also command ..."
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