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Definition of Clodpoles
1. clodpole [n] - See also: clodpole
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clodpoles
Literary usage of Clodpoles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1833)
"Sir,— In a recent number of the Mechanics' Magazine, there is a short ait;- cle
under the very complimentary title of " clodpoles," in which the natives of ..."
2. Christmas Festivities: Tales, Sketches, and Characters, with Beauties of the by John Poole (1845)
"His clodpoles are clodpoles from top to toe. Imitation, however, is dangerous ;
and his success in that line has tempted so many unskilful adventurers to ..."
3. The Chief Elizabethan Dramatists, Excluding Shakespeare by William Allan Neilson (1911)
"О ! your parasite Is a most precious thing, dropt from above, Not bred mongst
clods aud clodpoles, here on parts, earth. ..."
4. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography by Historical Society of Pennsylvania (1893)
"... and called them " clodpoles," or "clodhoppers;"4 and he was opposed to the
impeachment of the judges. When these latter were acquitted,5 on January 28, ..."
5. The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray by William Makepeace Thackeray, Sir Leslie Stephen (1899)
"... or to the village in her chair, and asserted a quasi-regal right of homage
from her tenants and other clodpoles. She lectured the parson on his divinity ..."
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