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Definition of Eavesdroppers
1. eavesdropper [n] - See also: eavesdropper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eavesdroppers
Literary usage of Eavesdroppers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Law of Crimes by William Lawrence Clark, William Lawrence Marshall, Herschel Bouton Lazell (1905)
"... and indictable at common law.831 (c) eavesdroppers, defined by Blackstone to
be persons who "listen under walls or windows, or the eaves of a house, ..."
2. Lives of the Queens of England of the House of Hanover by Doran (John) (1875)
"... wheedled away to Kew—Placed under Dr. Willis—The Prince and Lord Lothian
eavesdroppers—The King's Recovery—The King unexpectedly encounters Miss Burney. ..."
3. The Saracens from the Earliest Times to the Fall of Bagdad: From the by Arthur Gilman (1887)
"One would think that jinns could not know any more about the future than ordinary
mortals, but we are told that they were eavesdroppers at the gates of ..."
4. ... An Encyclopedia of Freemasonry and Its Kindred Sciences, Comprising the by Albert Gallatin Mackey, Edward L. Hawkins, William James Hughan (1912)
"It is there taught that our ancient brethren met on the highest hills and lowest
vales, the better to absente the approach of cowans ana eavesdroppers, ..."
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