Lexicographical Neighbors of Sillibubs
Literary usage of Sillibubs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1886)
"A writer at the commencement of the seventeenth century says : Some by the banks
of Thames their pleasures Some sillibubs among the milkmaids making, ..."
2. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"... says— " Some by the banks of Thames their pleasure taking Some sillibubs among
the milkmaids making, With music some upon the waters rowing, ..."
3. Highways and Byways in Oxford and the Cotswolds by Herbert Arthur Evans, Frederick Landseer Maur Griggs (1905)
"... jocund swain Quaffs sillibubs in cans to all upon the plain, And to their
country-girls, whose nosegays they do wear, Some roundelays do sing : the rest ..."
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