Lexicographical Neighbors of Schlemihls
Literary usage of Schlemihls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Interpretation of dreams by Sigmund Freud (1913)
"... in which made him think of the schlemihls, and he added, "That is my case."
He would have again acted the Schlemihl if he had missed the rendezvous. ..."
2. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal KnowledgeEncyclopedias and dictionaries (1919)
"University of Rochester PARZIVAL PETER schlemihls WUNDERSAME GESCHICHTE ELLWOOD,
CHARLES A., Ph.B., Ph.D. •Deceased Professor of Sociology, University of ..."
3. The Bookman (1911)
"They were the foster-children of a teasing fancy, inverted schlemihls, lacking
substance, but casting a violet shadow, an elusive impertinence provocative ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"... have betaken themselves to their mysticism and magic, to their double- gangers
and Peter schlemihls. A very natural anxiety to escape from the ..."
5. The Book of the Short Story by Alexander Jessup, Henry Seidel Canby (1903)
"Kinder- und Haus-Märchen, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm (1812—1815). Peter schlemihls
Wundersame Geschichte, A. von Chamisso (1814). ..."
6. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1872)
"As the tragi-comic story of Peter schlemihls shows, one cannot lose his own shadow
without falling into the saddest fatalities; but the shadow of a constant ..."
7. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"But we Germans are genuine Peter schlemihls ! In later times we have seen much
and suffered much-—for example, having soldiers quartered on us, ..."
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