Lexicographical Neighbors of Lingster
Literary usage of Lingster
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. H. M. Stanley's Wonderful Adventures in Africa: From His First Entrance Into by Joel Tyler Headley, Willis Fletcher Johnson (1890)
"The mats were unrolled, and the decorous demeanor suited to the important palaver
was assumed, when, suddenly, at a signal from the lingster, ..."
2. Stanley's Adventures in the Wilds of Africa: A Graphic Account of the by Joel Tyler Headley, Willis Fletcher Johnson (1890)
"The introductions being over, the object of the expedition was explained through
the medium of a lingster or interpreter; proposals were made on the part of ..."
3. The Congo and the Founding of Its Free State: A Story of Work and Exploration by Henry Morton Stanley (1885)
"The mats were unrolled, and the decorous demeanour Vivi suited to the important
palaver was assumed, when suddenly at a signal from the lingster, the salute ..."
4. The United States Magazine and Democratic Review (1842)
"... who was in the public service as a "lingster " or interpreter, we are enabled
to state the circumstances which gave rise to this important discovery, ..."
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