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Definition of Farragos
1. farrago [n] - See also: farrago
Lexicographical Neighbors of Farragos
Literary usage of Farragos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, called Frederick the Great: in ten vol by Thomas Carlyle (1859)
"... and lost in those unindexed Sibylline farragos, the terror of human nature ;—let
us copy it from memory, till some deliverer arise with finger on page.9 ..."
2. History of Friedrich II of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"Historical farragos without Index; a hundred, or several hundred, blind sacks of
Historical Clippings, generally authentic too if useless, and not the least ..."
3. Essays, English and American edited by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1920)
"As to the dapper little compiler of farragos,17 mentioned some time since, he
had arrayed himself in as many patches and colors as Harlequin,18 and there ..."
4. Essays, English and American by Raymond Macdonald Alden (1920)
"As to the dapper little compiler of farragos,'T mentioned some time since, he
Imad arrayed ... 17. farragos. Medleys. 1 5. ..."
5. Works by Thomas Carlyle (1894)
"Historical farragos without Index; a hundred, or several hundred, blind sacks of
Historical clippings, generally authentic too if useless, and not the least ..."
6. History of Friedrich the Second: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... Sibylline farragos, the terror of human nature; — let os copy it from memory,
till some deliverer arise wit) finger on page.1 "At Magdeburg, ..."
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