Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprews
Literary usage of Sprews
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cupola Furnace: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management by Edward Kirk (1903)
"It is the custom in some foundries, where the sprews and gates amount to from
thirty to forty per cent, of the heat, to melt them without milling to remove ..."
2. Cupola Furnance: A Practical Treatise on the Construction and Management of by Edward Kirk (1899)
"It is the custom in some foundries, where the sprews and gates amount to from
thirty to forty per cent, of the heat, to melt them without milling to remove ..."
3. Testamenta Eboracensia, Or, Wills Registered at York: Illustrative of the by James Raine, John William Clay (1855)
"... a colur of evere bounden with selver and over gilt, and a fair sprews ...
with silver and gilt, a sprews ..."
4. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"... he tben ' The dazzling plumage of the birds continually attracted the attention ;
and I particularly remarked two sprews of a dark though glossy green, ..."
5. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1876)
"... are sprews, Parrots, Weaver-birds, Silver-eyes and Butcher-birds1. In Trinidad
a blight both directly and indirectly due to the sugar-cane ..."
6. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1827)
"... he then ' The dazzling plumage of the birds continually attracted the attention ;
and I particularly remarked two sprews of a dark though glossy green, ..."
7. The Journal of Captain William Pote, Jr.: During His Captivity in the French by William Pote, John Fletcher Hurst (1895)
"June ye 17^ This Day Every man In ye Yard put a peice of sprews In their hats or
Caps In Commemoration yt ..."
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