Lexicographical Neighbors of Tomming
Literary usage of Tomming
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Land, Labour, and Gold; Or, Two Years in Victoria: With Visits to Sydney and by William Howitt (1858)
"tomming out White Hill Stuff. — Amazing Clearing made by the Diggers in one Year.
— Total Disregard of Life by the Officials. — Pits in the Highways Eighty ..."
2. Some Reminiscences of Three-quarters of a Century in India by E. J. Churcher (1909)
"With so much money in his possession he gave up work, and spent his time in
tom-tomming, singing, and smoking. His wife remonstrated with him. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1875)
"... of the chiefs son (which accounted for the firing of guns and tom-tomming that
was going on), that in the name of the chief he was very glad to see me, ..."
4. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"... Disturbing the marriage procession And its cohort of tom-tomming men, And the
bridegroom's sublime self-possession— That dusky young husband of ten. ..."
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