Lexicographical Neighbors of Suckings
Literary usage of Suckings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings by International Congress of Americanists (1905)
"The medicine man, who was always a priest, is commonly ridiculed for his treatment
of disease, through exorcisms, suckings and blowing, by cauterization, ..."
2. The American Journal of Education by Henry Barnard (1863)
"... whether we intend it or not; and that these fingerings and suckings of every
thing it can lay hold of, these open-mouthed listenings to every sound, ..."
3. Putnam's Magazine: Original Papers on Literature, Science, Art, and National by John Walter Osborne (1868)
"... he appreciated all the risible horror and nauseous grotesque of these tales
about demoniac suckings. One really feels like despairing of tha devil, ..."
4. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1865)
"... and suckings and pluck- ings among the larger fruits, the fair sunny-side show
specimens, the products of nice culture just mellowing into ripeness —all ..."
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