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Definition of Beadrolls
1. beadroll [n] - See also: beadroll
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beadrolls
Literary usage of Beadrolls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1899)
"... and knowing air of philosophic insight, to be among the shallowest of all
histories ; mere beadrolls of exterior occurrences, of battles, edifices, ..."
2. Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished by Thomas Carlyle (1893)
"... and knowing air of philosophic insight, to be among the shallowest of all
histories ; mere beadrolls of exterior occurrences, of battles, edifices, ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"... perhaps that also might be legible, if in those opaque beadrolls which are
called Histories of Friedrich anything human could with certainty be read ! ..."
4. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... perhaps that also might be legible, if in those opaque beadrolls which are
called Histories of Friedrich anything human could with certainty be read! ..."