Citations:freshling

English citations of freshling

• 1823, Charles Knight, Knight's Quarterly Magazine, Page 64

  Nay, say not so! nor cloud the sun Of joyous expectation, Ordain'd to bless the / little one, The freshling of creation! Nor doubt that He, who now doth feed ....

• 1832-5, John clare, Poems of the Middle Period, Page 52

  ... calm & good There comes the gentle steps of spring So delicate of hues & fair / Rich greens—& glad birds glossy wing Fanning the freshling hedges there 20 ...

• 1920 Edith Bancroft, Jane Allen: Center, Page 136

  "I have no patience with a girl in the juniors who acts like a freshling cad. It isn't as if she had not already had the benefit of two hard years' training ...

• 1921, Will Irwin, Columbine Time, Page 13

  Southward on Broadway walked a freshling school-teacher, toward her boarding house and luncheon. Somewhere in the region of Grace Church their ways would ...

• 1934, Albert Shaw, Review of Reviews and World's Work, Page 96

  ... Bohemian circle in which the bard moved, introduced as a freshling by his first friend and benefactor, Catulle Mendes, the poet, is most fascinating. ...

• 1975, Joanna Richardson, Essays by Divers Hands, Page 118

  ... burning and bitter and clean, To cleave to the mouth as cling freshling leaves To the thighs of the peach and the prune : torpid cleaves Noonday heat ...