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Definition of Hoarier
1. hoary [adj] - See also: hoary
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hoarier
Literary usage of Hoarier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Poets in Picardy: And Other Poems by E. De Stein (1919)
"I'll live an ancient mystery With gouty feet and blistery, Recalling ancient
history With cronies at the club, And hoarier and ..."
2. Dictionary of Americanisms: A Glossary of Words and Phrases Usually Regarded by John Russell Bartlett (1860)
"To EAT, ra To supply with food. A Western use of the word. hoarier. — Squire,
what pay do yon give ? Contractor. — Ten bits a day. ..."
3. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1870)
"... Л ud the hoarier the rime, The more seasonable weather For the blessed Christmas
time. for the more it asks fulfilment Of the law embodied then, ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"... and even some stones of enormous magnitude and dizzy location, have sermons,
which render them, to the initiated, remembrancers of a still hoarier, or, ..."
5. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"famous Russell's Wallsend Main, that the Old Wallsend pit; this other, hoarier
and mure dilapidated than its fellows, ..."
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