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Definition of Dears
1. dear [n] - See also: dear
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dears
Literary usage of Dears
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Child's Book of Old Verses (1910)
"I ONCE had a sweet little doll, dears, The prettiest doll in the world; Her
cheecks were so red and white, dears, And her hair was so charmingly curled. ..."
2. An Analytical Digest of the Cases Published in the New Series of the Law by Francis Towers Streeten, George Stevens Allnutt (1863)
"(NS) MC 119 ; dears. & B. 231. Where a servant by a false pretence induces ...
(ns) MC 53 j dears. & B. 345. (/) Goods Pledged with Intent to redeem Лет. ..."
3. The Writings in Prose and Verse of Rudyard Kipling by Rudyard Kipling (1899)
"dears- ley himself was in no condition to say anything, and Mulvaney preserved
a massive silence, broken only by the occasional licking of the lips. ..."
4. Ten Years in Washington: Life and Scenes in the National Capital, as a Woman by Mary Clemmer (1874)
"... for their Country— Secretly Burying the Dead—A Wife of Seventeen Years—Midnight
Studies—Broken Down—A Party of Grandchildren—" My dears, I am an Invalid ..."
5. Werner's Readings and Recitations (1911)
"O ROCK-A-BY, dears. ANNA SANFORD THOMPSON. [Reciter enters, goes to stage center,
smiles, sits in rocker, and rocks with foot supposed cradle while she ..."
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