Lexicographical Neighbors of Forestallment
Literary usage of Forestallment
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Parasitic Wealth: Or, Money Reform. A Manifesto to the People of the United by John Brown (1898)
"Titles to land when traced far enough back are found in their last analyses to
rest on forestallment, with possible intermediate stages of conquest or ..."
2. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1872)
"My reasons for breaking up the Expedition, as formerly organised by the Royal
Geographical Society, were not forestallment only, ..."
3. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... so appreciative a friend, could hardly have lacked favorable critics; and he
very cordially welcomes from his contemporaries any forestallment of the ..."
4. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the by Philip Alexander Bruce (1896)
"... the special articles in which it was thought advisable that there should be
no forestallment by purchase from the importing merchant, were shoes, ..."
5. A General Abridgment and Digest of American Law: With Occasional Notes and by Nathan Dane (1824)
"... and engrossing were comprehended within forestallment. 3 Inst. 195 ; 4 Com.
D. 527. 4 Bl Com. 15S.—Act of Virginia of 1777. ..."
6. Horizons: A Book of Criticism by Francis Hackett (1918)
"There is always a sensitive apprehension and forestallment of anti-climax.
He watches for anti-climax out of the corner of his eye. ..."
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