Lexicographical Neighbors of Schelms
Literary usage of Schelms
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1908)
"... Bosch- mann, trek jul schelms!" come with wearisome regularity from the same
spot, as each ox in turn is singled out for admonition, while the great ..."
2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1838)
"... snow-flakes from a northern cloud : Harmless they turn from knightly helms.
But heaps on heaps, the half-armed schelms Fall 'neath the feathered shower. ..."
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