Lexicographical Neighbors of Rottans
Literary usage of Rottans
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Far East Revisited: Essays on Political, Commercial, Social, and General by A. Gorton Angier (1908)
"No sooner do the cargo boats come along than the wealth of rottans is again in
evidence, but there is likewise a fair number of bags of white pepper for ..."
2. The Book of Ellon by Alexander Inkson McConnochie (1901)
"His intention, after he had delivered his grand coup, was to lie perfectly still
and listen to the last squeaks of utterly flattened rottans, ..."
3. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1811)
"... and made faft to trees growing in the water, on the fide of a. river, with
cables made of rottans ; and when they built a factory, they were forced, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"the rottans hae been in hand wi' it !—the dogs hae gotten into the pantry !
Whereas, were I presenting it on the kitchen table, there wadna be a bite o' it ..."
5. Hakluytus Posthumus, Or, Purchas His Pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"This Hand is distant from Machian ten leagues: here we had good store of wood,
but no water. The thirteenth, our Cowpers provided themselves of rottans for ..."
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