Lexicographical Neighbors of Parakites
Literary usage of Parakites
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1899)
"In flying a train of Malay parakites, a leading kite is selected capable of being
raised ... The kites—or parakites ns they are usually called when flown in ..."
2. The Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by John Timbs (1877)
"Mr. Simmon's displays for this purpose a number of parakites, which are in reality
huge square-shaped kites, the material of which they are composed being ..."
3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1897)
"parakites by Gilbert Totten Woglom." This is not a quotation from " Alice in
Wonderland," but the ... parakites seem to be glorified kites, without tails, ..."
4. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America by Lionel Wafer (1903)
"They have alfo many parakites, mod of them Green; generally much the fame as in
other Places. They don't fort with the Parrots, but go in large Flights by ..."
5. A New Voyage and Description of the Isthmus of America by Lionel Wafer (1903)
"parakites. Macaw- birds. WAFER'S DARIEN fome green, for Shape and Size like the
generality of the ... They have alfo many parakites, moft of them Green ..."
6. The Annual American Catalogue 1886-1900: Being the Full Titles, with (1897)
"parakites : a treatise on the making and flying of tailless kites for scientific
purposes and for recreation. NY, G: P. Putnam's Sons, ..."
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