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Definition of Pilferies
1. pilfery [n] - See also: pilfery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pilferies
Literary usage of Pilferies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Shakspere and Montaigne: An Endeavour to Explain the Tendency of 'Hamlet by Jacob Feis (1884)
"A further remark of Vol- pone on ' base pilferies,' and ' wholesome penance done
for it,' may be taken as a hit against Hamlet's ' fingering ' the packet to ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"What notable robberies, pilferies, murders, rapes, and stealings of young children,
burning, breaking, and disfiguring their limbs to make them pitiful in ..."
3. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"The difficulty lies in tracing the original owners of the contents of these '
packets of pilferies,' not in proving that ..."
4. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"The difficulty lies in tracing the original owners of the contents of these 'packets
of pilferies,' not in proving that they are stolen goods. ..."
5. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"The difficulty lies in tracing the original owners of the contents of these 'packets
of pilferies,' not in proving that they are stolen goods. ..."
6. Chronicle and Romance: Froissart, Malory, Holinshed ; with Introductions by Jean Froissart, Thomas Malory, William Harrison (1910)
"What notable robberies, pilferies, murders, rapes, and stealings of young children,
burning, breaking, and disfiguring their limbs to make them pitiful in ..."
7. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed (1780)
"... pilferies, couch'd and compos'd in order, Frame thee and me. Man's a quick
mafs of thievery. Rone a. ..."
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