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Definition of Clodpates
1. clodpate [n] - See also: clodpate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clodpates
Literary usage of Clodpates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The world's wit and humor: an encyclopedia of the classic wit and humor of by Lionel Strachey (1906)
"... of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go to lose them, as
the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of coin by that loss. ..."
2. An American in the Making: The Life Story of an Immigrant by Marcus Eli Ravage (1917)
"The clodpates are not." "But what has this got to do with literature?" "Well,"
she answered, "it has this to do with it. This symbolism business is ..."
3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Leon i.e. Alexandre Le'on Valle'e, Léon Vallée, Alois Leonhard Brandl (1899)
"... of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go to lose them, as
the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss. ..."
4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"... of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go to lose them, as
the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss. ..."
5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"... of their gentility, their swords, to purchase hatchets to go to lose them, as
the silly clodpates did, in hopes to gain store of chink by that loss. ..."
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