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Definition of Fleecers
1. fleecer [n] - See also: fleecer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fleecers
Literary usage of Fleecers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Private Lives of Kaiser William II, and His Consort: Secret History of the by Henry William Fischer (1909)
"After all, "society is divided into two classes,—the fleecers and the fleeced,"
and, assuredly, it is better to belong to the fleecers or, in this case, ..."
2. The Co-operative Commonwealth: An Exposition of Socialism by Laurence Gronlund (1900)
"That consummate advocate and retainer of our fleecers, — I again use this word
... This is a "remedy" which our fleecers, our plutocrats, guarantee as an ..."
3. The Coöperative Commonwealth in Its Outlines: An Exposition of Modern Socialism by Laurence Gronlund (1884)
"Do we not hear from everywhere the cry of the fleecers: "Foreign markets! ...
Did we not say that the fleecers had excellent reasons of their own for ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1835)
"... crawling and pushing From out of the cushion, With nibblers and tweezers, The
Corinthian fleecers. My sides they are gnawing, My legs they are clawing, ..."
5. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"After that, whenever he saw- one of the peculiar signs, " Robbers' Roost," "fleecers'
Den," or "Fools' Last Chance," Armstrong would shake his ..."
6. The Letters of Franklin K. Lane, Personal and Political by Franklin K. Lane (1922)
"Punched and tapped by every stray Knight of the Golden fleecers. Awaiting a
verdict from puzzled doctors. . . . Bless you, I have been through years of ..."
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