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Definition of Quashees
1. quashee [n] - See also: quashee
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quashees
Literary usage of Quashees
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1891)
"... weavers dying with hunger there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical
amount of misery and desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1861)
"... inhabited by a horde of half-savage quashees, " up to the ears in pumpkin,"
as Mr. Carlyle was pleased to describe them, will be surprised to learn that ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1891)
"... weavers dying with hunger there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical
amount of misery and desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. ..."
4. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... of quashees. It must be owned, thy eyes are of the sodden sort ; and with thy
emancipations, and thy twenty- ..."
5. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical amount of misery and
desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. It must be owned, ..."
6. London by Charles Knight (1851)
"... dying of hunger, there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical amount
of misery and desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. ..."
7. English and Engineering by Frank Aydelotte (1917)
"... dying of hunger, there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical amount
of misery and desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. ..."
8. The Biblical Repository and Classical Review. by American Biblical Repository (1844)
"... dying of hunger, there is more thought and heart, a greater arithmetical amount
of misery and desperation, than in whole gangs of quashees. ..."
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