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Definition of Greenhorns
1. greenhorn [n] - See also: greenhorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenhorns
Literary usage of Greenhorns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Cycle of Adams Letters, 1861-1865 by Charles Francis Adams, Henry Adams (1920)
"Lord Russell and Lord Palmerston look before the world rather like greenhorns
who have suffered themselves to be completely sold. ..."
2. Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a by Charles Rockwell (1842)
"Sail from Boston. — Feelings thus excited. — Poetry. — Sea Sickness. — A Wet Ship.
— greenhorns. — Marines.—A Commander of a Ship.—Peril at Sea. ..."
3. Vivian Grey by Benjamin Disraeli (1901)
"He was too cunning a master of the human mind, not to be aware of the quicksands
upon which all greenhorns strike; he knew too well the danger of ..."
4. Life on the Ocean: Being Sketches of Personal Experience in the United by Charles Nordhoff (1874)
"NEW BEDFORD — The Town— The Wharves— The Shipping Office — Prospective Whalemen—
Old Bill— The Outfitters — Tricks upon the greenhorns — Hezekiah ..."
5. Ten Years in Wall Street: Or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on by William Worthington Fowler (1870)
"... the Result—A Wild-cat Bank—Philosophy of Speculation—Beware, greenhorns! '
T was twelve o'clock, meridian. The call of stocks was over, and the brokers, ..."
6. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1829)
"... chicken-coop—A genteel appearance—The supreme bon ton—War with the greenhorns—Lc
Cadran bleu de la Canaille—A well-compacted society—The Orientalists ..."
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