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Definition of Ransacker
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ransacker
Literary usage of Ransacker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1897)
"... tum—striking dismay into the most industrious ransacker of literary dust-heaps.
Yet such histories are not by the nature of things foredoomed to be ..."
2. The American Quarterly Review by Robert Walsh (1835)
""I myself," says this ransacker in a small, way, " never saw twenty dollars of
my own all the time I served the invincible Gustavus, unless it was from the ..."
3. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1887)
"... especially over the pictures, though it is a book not to be taken all at once.
Mr. Ashton is a ransacker, a collector of curiosities, a showman, ..."
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