Lexicographical Neighbors of Stivy
Literary usage of Stivy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"... are so agreeably fresh and cool, that we never feel the prostrating lassitude
that one experiences in hot, close weather in a stivy English town. ..."
2. Economic Abstracts by Netherlands, Bibliotheek, Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool, Minister von Sociale Zaken (1901)
"The sun of her smile was like a clean breath in the stivy den; and, behold, she
took Robaccia by the hand and lifted her up, ..."
3. The British Theatre: Or, A Collection of Plays, which are Acted at the edited by Inchbald (1824)
"... But stivy'd, and made the western welkin blush, 'When the English measured
backward their own In faint retire : O, bravely came we off, ..."
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