Lexicographical Neighbors of Filchings
Literary usage of Filchings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1894)
"... in the eyes of the town, and insisting on going with her to pay some call
where she distributed her small filchings from her own share of sweet things. ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1870)
"... and as the island abounds in grottoes and artificial hiding-places, these
were, in consequence of their filchings, constantly in request. ..."
3. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"Here we see able management, brilliant enterprise, speculative ventures, shrewd
pickings,dishonest filchings. A great continent was opened, an unexampled ..."
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