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Definition of Pismires
1. pismire [n] - See also: pismire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pismires
Literary usage of Pismires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Travels of Sir John Mandeville: The Version of the Cotton Manuscript in by John Mandeville, Willem van Ruysbroeck, Odorico (1905)
"CHAPTER XXXIII Of the Hills of Gold that pismires keep. And of the four Floods
that come from Paradise Terrestrial TOWARD the east part of ..."
2. The Family Receipt Book: Containing Eight Hundred Valuable Receipts in by Maria Eliza Ketelby Rundell (1819)
"To prevent the increase of pismires in Grass- Lands newly laid down. Make a strong
decoction of walnut-tree leaves, and after opening several of the ..."
3. The Whole Works of John Bunyan by John Bunyan, George Offor (1862)
"But, sluggard, is it not a shame for thee To be outdone by pismires ? Pi^ythee
hear : Their works, too, will thy condemnation be When at the judgment-seat ..."
4. Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall: Urne-buriall, Or a Discourse of the Sepulchrall by Thomas Browne, Bruce Rogers (1907)
"... Cranes, the Sepulchral Cells of pismires and practice of Bees; which civil
society carrieth out their dead, and hath exequies, if not interments. ..."
5. The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal (1852)
"And after that, they flee away in all haste that they may, ere the pismires come
out of the earth. And in other times when it is not so hot, ..."
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