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Definition of Swipes
1. swipe [v] - See also: swipe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swipes
Literary usage of Swipes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1820)
"The Home party consists of swipes, the publican, to whom had been confided the
charge of a son of Sir Christopher Cranberry's, the fruit of a stolen match ..."
2. Rhetorical Dialogues: Or, Dramatic Selections for the Use of Schools by John Epy Lovell (1839)
"Who would have thought the old lady was so near her end 1 swipes. ... Ah, we must
all die, brother swipes, and those who live longest, outlive the most. ..."
3. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Now Mrs. swipes went out a charing, For candles' ends and good cheese paring ...
In butter thus was swipes now roasting. When for some salt cook sent her ..."
4. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1879)
"bonds, moneys, and property, both personal and real, to my dear cousins, Samuel
swipes, of Malt Street, brewer, and Christopher Currie, of Fly Court, ..."
5. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1907)
"swipes. Generous creature! kind soul! I always loved her! Cur. ... And who knows
what influence — swipes. Am I not named first in her will ? and did I not ..."
6. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1896)
"swipes. Generous creature! kind soul! I always loved her! Cur. ... And who knows
what influence — swipes. Am I not named first in her will ? and did I not ..."
7. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"said swipes, contemptuously; "much good a copy would do in a court of law. ...
The will was read by swipes from beginning to end, and pronounced by him ..."
8. The London Literary Gazette and Journal of Belles Lettres, Arts, Sciences, Etc (1820)
"The Home party consists of swipes, the publican, to whom had been confided the
charge of a son of Sir Christopher Cranberry's, the fruit of a stolen match ..."
9. Rhetorical Dialogues: Or, Dramatic Selections for the Use of Schools by John Epy Lovell (1839)
"Who would have thought the old lady was so near her end 1 swipes. ... Ah, we must
all die, brother swipes, and those who live longest, outlive the most. ..."
10. The Universal Songster: Or, Museum of Mirth: Forming the Most Complete (1834)
"Now Mrs. swipes went out a charing, For candles' ends and good cheese paring ...
In butter thus was swipes now roasting. When for some salt cook sent her ..."
11. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1879)
"bonds, moneys, and property, both personal and real, to my dear cousins, Samuel
swipes, of Malt Street, brewer, and Christopher Currie, of Fly Court, ..."
12. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1907)
"swipes. Generous creature! kind soul! I always loved her! Cur. ... And who knows
what influence — swipes. Am I not named first in her will ? and did I not ..."
13. McGuffey's Fifth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey (1896)
"swipes. Generous creature! kind soul! I always loved her! Cur. ... And who knows
what influence — swipes. Am I not named first in her will ? and did I not ..."
14. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1851)
"said swipes, contemptuously; "much good a copy would do in a court of law. ...
The will was read by swipes from beginning to end, and pronounced by him ..."
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