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Definition of Fasters
1. faster [n] - See also: faster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasters
Literary usage of Fasters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Illustrations of Political Economy.: By Harriet Martineau by Harriet Martineau (1834)
"fasters AND FEASTERS. THERE were two opposite lights on the horizon that night,
to those who looked out from the village. While the moon sank' serenely ..."
2. Fasting: The Ultimate Diet by Allan Cott (1997)
"Four Illustrious fasters • Upton Sinclair. • A genteel English housewife. • Dick
Gregory. • Mohandas K. Gandhi. These four fasted for quite different ..."
3. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society by American Fisheries Society (1904)
"Comparing now the 4 lots with each other and stating the losses in the ratio of
the daily losses per 10000, the fasters for 5 days lost 8 ; the fasters for ..."
4. A Peculiar People: The Doukhobórs by Aylmer Maude (1904)
"Meetings of the fasters were held, but the decisions arrived at were kept ...
The Governor of Tiflis receiving reports to the effect that the fasters ..."
5. Recollections of an Egyptian Princess by Ellen Chennells (1893)
"She of course had a dispensation: first, because she came to us in the daytime,
when the rigid fasters would be either asleep or resting; and secondly, ..."
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