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Definition of Harpers
1. harper [n] - See also: harper
Lexicographical Neighbors of Harpers
Literary usage of Harpers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Federal Aid in Domestic Disturbances, 1787-1903 by United States Adjutant-General's Office, Frederick T. Wilson (1903)
"Establishing themselves in a strong brick building near the gate, used as an
engine house, harpers Ferry, va., they stationed sentinels at the bridge, ..."
2. Maryland Geological Survey by Maryland Geological Survey (1919)
"THE harpers SHALE The bluish gray slate or schist exposed so prominently in the
vicinity of Harper's Ferry, West Virginia, in the gorges of the Potomac and ..."
3. The Gospel in All Lands by Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church (1888)
"harpers. $1.50. Thatcher, BB Biography of Distinguished Indians, 2 vols.—harpers,
$1.50. ... —harpers, $1.50. McCabe, JD Our Young Folks Abroad in Europe. ..."
4. History of the United States of America by Henry William Elson (1904)
"JOHN BROWN AND harpers FERRY On the morning of October 17,1859, the country was
startled by ... The arsenal at harpers Ferry, an insignificant village at ..."
5. The Literary World by Samuel R. Crocker, Edward Abbott, Nicholas Paine Gilman, Madeline Vaughan Abbott Bushnell, Bliss Carman, Herbert Copeland (1881)
"harpers. 1.50 A Thousand Miles in the Rob Roy. Macgregor. ... harpers. 1.50 Roberts.
1.25 The Fairy Land of Science. AB Buckley. Ap- pleton. ..."
6. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1912)
"The bill was taken for confessed as to the Pocahontas Tanning Company, WS Taylor,
the harpers Ferry Timber Company, and the Durbin Lumber Company, ..."
7. The Highland Bagpipe: Its History, Literature, and Music, with Some Account by Wiliam Laird Manson (1901)
"harpers, BARDS, AND PIPERS. "O'er all this hazy realm 13 spread A halo of sad
memories of the dead, Of mournful love tales, of old tragedies ; Filling the ..."
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