Lexicographical Neighbors of Ninons
Literary usage of Ninons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Timothy Holmes (1883)
"This orifice is formed behind -ninons pro,-ess and laminae of the first sacral
vertebra, whilst projecting i it <>n each side are the superior articular ..."
2. The Library by Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)., Library Association (1907)
"... or half-binding most frequently), so that like the Dianes and ninons of former
times, they kept their figures and complexions to extreme old age. ..."
3. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, George Walter Prothero, John Gibson Lockhart, John Murray, Whitwell Elwin, John Taylor Coleridge, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, William Macpherson, William Smith (1845)
"... brilliant boudoirs where a dynasty of ninons predominated over a hierarchy of
Château- neufs. Voltaire thus, at the very opening, had the opportunity of ..."
4. Men, Women & Manners in Colonial Times by Sydney George Fisher (1897)
"... he died in 1774, -• •• when the Six ninons were debating whether they should
join the colonists or the mother country in the Revolution. ..."
5. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"... has beautifully facilitated the development, even the apotheosis, of a certain
form of spinster- hood, that of the ninons de l'Enclos—and of other Clos. ..."
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