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Definition of Dreadfuls
1. dreadful [n] - See also: dreadful
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dreadfuls
Literary usage of Dreadfuls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of a Social Atom by William Edwin Adams (1903)
"CHAPTER XI PENNY dreadfuls AND CHEAP LITERATURE THE popular literature of the
first half of the nineteenth century was as scant in quantity as it was for ..."
2. John Chinaman at Home: Sketches of Men, Manners and Things in China by Edward John Hardy (1907)
"... and nov with a purpose — Chess — An elegant present — Reverence the characteri
Lettered-paper societies — Large books — Fenny dreadfuls — Ignorai in ..."
3. Adventures in Criticism by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1896)
"Pe«ny Our friends have been occupied with the case and of a half-witted boy who
consumed Penny dreadfuls l Matricide. dreadfuls and afterwards went and ..."
4. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1876)
"... of serials as the reading of a people, they may be regarded as highly commendable
compared with the style of publications known as " Penny dreadfuls. ..."
5. Papers of the Manchester Literary Club by Manchester Literary Club (Manchester, England), Manchester Literary Club (1876)
"The Penny dreadfuls, as Mr. Nodal pointed out, have but an insignificant sale,
... As Mr. Nodal mentioned, the sale of these dreadfuls is one decreasing ..."
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