Lexicographical Neighbors of Spairging
Literary usage of Spairging
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1840)
"This is precisely the idea conveyed by spairging ; flinging it in any other way
would be laving or splashing.—H. This poem has been very cleverly ..."
2. Ribs and Trucks from Davy's Locker: Being Magazine Matter Broke Loose and by W. A. G. (1842)
"... feeding the gaping furnaces with fuel, some couchant on the windlass, " spinning
yarns;" one brandishing a mighty fork, another " spairging about the ..."
3. Mary Lyndon: Or, Revelations of a Life. An Autobiography by Mary Sargeant Gove Nichols (1855)
"... were in the next world for vending brimstone, for she is a literalist, and
how many clerks they employed for ' spairging about the brim- stane cootie, ..."
4. Studies and Sketches in Modern Literature: Periodical Contributions by Peter Landreth (1861)
"... would have detected in the ' Address to the Deil' ought but questionable
humour; for, certainly, the idea of this beloved and lamented hero ' spairging ..."
Other Resources:
