Lexicographical Neighbors of Lockjaws
Literary usage of Lockjaws
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Atlantic Monthly by Making of America Project (1860)
"... and, meditating on the contingencies of wounds, cancers, lockjaws, rejoices
in Dr. Jackson's benign discovery, so a man who looks at Paris, at Naples, ..."
2. The Conduct of Life by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1904)
"Just as a man witnessing the admirable effect of ether to lull pain, and meditating
on the contingencies of wounds, cancers, lockjaws, rejoices in Dr. ..."
3. The Monthly Religious Magazine (1861)
"The controversy between the trap-doors and lockjaws, conveniently abbreviated as
the " traps" and the " locks," paled away, though it was not forgotten, ..."
4. The Musical World (1865)
"... will be the peril of the lockjaws. Mention has often been made by me of Wagner.
I was the first, in letters from Vienna, to point out the signal ..."
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