Lexicographical Neighbors of Peching
Literary usage of Peching
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Surgeon's Daughter and Castle Dangerous: With General Glossary by Walter Scott (1879)
"Peat-hagg, sloughs in places from whence peat has been dug. Peat, pet; favourite.
peching ... peching, puffing and panting ; breathing hard. ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1893)
"running down the glen like the strong dogs on the peching deer ; and the men were
not a hundred yards away from the potato- pit when they were ghosts that ..."
3. China and Her People by Charles Denby (1905)
"The syllable " Pe " means north, and in the Chinese language Peking is " peching,"
which means the northern capital. Formerly Nanking was the southern ..."
4. The Works of Robert Fergusson by Robert Fergusson, Alexander Balloch Grosart (1851)
"... That gar'd his feckless body aik, An' spew the reikin gore, Fu' red that night.
He peching on the cawsey lay, 0' kicks and cuffs weel sair'd; ..."
5. A Literary History of Scotland by John Hepburn Millar (1903)
"... the land was plangent with the sobs of grown men, vainly endeavouring to stifle
their emotion by an elaborate affectation of "peching" and "hoasting. ..."
6. The Poems of Robert Fergusson: In Two Parts. To which is Prefixed, the Life by Robert Fergusson (1815)
"He peching on the cawsey lay, O' kicks and cuff's weel sair'd; A Highland aith
the serjeant gae, " She maun pe see our guard. ..."
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