Lexicographical Neighbors of Leadened
Literary usage of Leadened
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Northamptonshire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Journal by Christopher Alexander Markham (1886)
"leadened : laden: "the bees are leadened with honey." Long-legged shepherd : the
crane-fly, daddy long-legs. Loosen : loose: "some o' my tiles got loosen. ..."
2. Shirley: A Tale by Charlotte Brontë (1850)
"Fire-arms allus—and allus leadened." " Then you're a fool to stop us here : a
shot would give the alarm—Moore would be on us before we could turn round. ..."
3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1890)
"The abnormal physical signs may be summarized as follows: a (leadened percussion
sound, increased vocal and pectoral fremitus, a harsh inspiration of high ..."
4. The Bookman (1898)
"The air had softened of a sudden from its piercing cold to a mildness balmy by
comparison ; the sky had leadened over with a menacing vapour, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1885)
"... and slipt them into the skipper's pocket that was next the water, and when he
found he had leadened him as much as would sink him, he gives him a shove ..."
6. The Descent of man and selection in relation to sex by Charles Darwin (1909)
"The brown, orange, and pale-leadened narrow zones, which border the lower black
mark of the elliptic ornament, can be seen gradually to become more and more ..."
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