Lexicographical Neighbors of Lagans
Literary usage of Lagans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cases Decided by the House of Lords on Appeals and Writs of Error by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Hope Maclean, George Robinson (1840)
"Spears, partners in the firm of Spears & Co., had Ld. chancellor's joined the
M 'lagans as securities for advances made to them by two banks ; thirdly, ..."
2. Reports of Cases Heard and Decided in the House of Lords on Appeals and by Great Britain Parliament. House of Lords, Charles Clark, William Finnelly, Jonathan Cogswell Perkins (1873)
"After that assignment and transfer in the books, the M'lagans could not have
compelled ... The Crown could only claim what was the property of the M'lagans, ..."
3. Domestic Manners and Customs of the Hindoos of Northern India, Or, More by Ishuree Dass (1860)
"When the lagans are made out, same pooja is performed ; after this one or two
betel nuts, some turmeric, a little rice, and two pice are put with the lagans ..."
4. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1826)
"and all tke people who were not enlisted in the service of the prince were branded
with the contemptuous epithet of ¡lagans. (Tacit. Hist. iii. 24. 43.77. ..."
5. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"... (cross-leaved heath), both abundant on heaths and commons, E. lagans, Cornish
heath, found only in West Cornwall, E. ciliaris in the ..."
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