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Definition of Beachcombers
1. beachcomber [n] - See also: beachcomber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beachcombers
Literary usage of Beachcombers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. My Consulate in Samoa: A Record of Four Years' Sojourn in the Navigators by William Brown Churchward (1887)
"Description of Group—Savaii—Mountain Streams—Food-trees —Productions—White
Traders—beachcombers—Having a Baby—Savaii Squires—Monkey Jack—Upolu—Daybreak from ..."
2. Life and Adventure in the South Pacific by Jones (1861)
"An "Amateur" Concert.—Bark "Alfred Tyler."—Wreck of the "Ontario."—Ocean Island
again.—Freshwater Cavern.—Superstitions.—beachcombers.— Rascally Operations. ..."
3. The Coral Lands of the Pacific: Their Peoples and Their Products by H. Stonehewer Cooper (1882)
"PEARL FISHING AND 'beachcombers.' THERE can be no doubt that if the innumerable
low coral islands scattered all over the face of the South Sea, ..."
4. The American Magazine of Art by American Federation of Arts (1918)
"AN ARTISTS REVEL On August 22d they gave the usual beachcombers' Revel. This was
an original play or ... There were thirty or more beachcombers in the cast. ..."
5. The Bookman (1903)
"Hut the beachcomber was right, as—as though to spite poor Mrs. Grundy— beachcombers
occasionally are. The Marlborough developing and the Oxford clinching ..."
6. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1883)
"On the whole, the Challenger people got on very well with them. We have spoken
of beachcombers and ... But these two classes—the beachcombers and the ..."
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