Lexicographical Neighbors of Sabbing
Literary usage of Sabbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fifty Contemporary One-act Plays by Frank Shay, Pierre Loving (1920)
"... [sabbing]. Yes — that is happiness ! GUÉRIN. Poor little woman! FRANÇOISE.
That's my life; as for my happiness, it exists from day to day. ..."
2. The Poets and Poetry of Scotland: From the Earliest to the Present Time by James Grant Wilson (1875)
"I've sworn to lea' thee, So thou'll never see me mair." Meg, a' sabbing, sae to
lose him, Sic a change had never wist, Held his hand close ..."
3. The Common-place Book of Ancient and Modern Ballad: And Metrical Legendary (1824)
"Meg, a' sabbing sae to lose him, Sic a change had never wist, Held his hand close
to her bosom, While her heart was like to burst. ..."
4. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... blythe lads are scorning, Lasses are lonely and dowie' and wae; Nae daffin',*
nae gabbin',* but sighing and sabbing, Ilk ane lifts her ..."
5. The Golden Treasury: Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the by Francis Turner Palgrave (1916)
"... in the morning, nae blythe lads are scorning, Lasses are lonely and dowie and
wae ; Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighing and sabbing, Ilk ane lifts her ..."
6. The Golden Treasury by Francis Turner Palgrave (1906)
"... in the morning, nae blythe lads' are ' scorning, Lasses are lonely and dowie
and wae ; Nae daffin', nae gabbin', but sighing and sabbing, Ilk ane lifts ..."
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