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Definition of Curtailers
1. curtailer [n] - See also: curtailer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Curtailers
Literary usage of Curtailers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Annals of Roger de Hoveden: Comprising the History of England and of by Roger, Roger of Hoveden, Henry Thomas Riley (1853)
"... eating all curtailers of their tithes, and of absolving the same, in due
ecclesiastical form. To this sanction we do also add, that, from lands newly ..."
2. The Dramatic Works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: Printed from by Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, George Colman, Peter Whalley (1811)
"... curtailers were, is not possible now to be known: I could have wished that
he, or they, who undertook the charge of reforming the length of this piece, ..."
3. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by John Todhunter, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman (1880)
"The peasant cannot gratify theso fashionable cravings without leaving his family
to starve. "Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of ..."
4. The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley in Verse and Prose, Now First Brought by Robert Browning, W. Tyas Harden, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Harry Buxton Forman, William Groser (1880)
"Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population, pasturage would
include a waste too great to be afforded. The labour requisite to support ..."
5. The Stock Exchange: A Short Study of Investment and Speculation by Francis Wrigley Hirst (1911)
"But the secret of Wall Street's supremacy lies in the power of its banks as
manufactories and curtailers of credit. Hence it is not merely a market of bonds ..."
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