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Definition of Elances
1. elance [v] - See also: elance
Lexicographical Neighbors of Elances
Literary usage of Elances
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists by John William Bradley (1889)
"The horses are Men elances, the tone of the figures crude and gaudy. Colours badly
applied, hence they have scaled off.—P. Paris, t. vi. 4, 7172. TIMO. ..."
2. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... has been to prepare and consider of some matter •which has been, strictly
speaking, his defence, time hath been allowed, but not in other in- elances. ..."
3. The New-England Magazine by Joseph Tinker Buckingham, Edwin Buckingham, Samuel Gridley Howe, John Osborne Sargent, Park Benjamin (1831)
"When circum- elances permitted he tomahawked and scalped his fallen enemy ; lie
boasted after the war, that he had slain forty of the enemy with hia own ..."
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