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Definition of Jerries
1. jerry [n] - See also: jerry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Jerries
Literary usage of Jerries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pole and Czech in Silesia by James Alexander Roy (1921)
"They're not jerries, P." " Oh, ain't they, sir ? And w'ot may they be, sir ? ...
In a trice the jerries had P. and the baggage stowed away in the car, ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"One of the four jerries, he added, was of gigantic magnitude. The play on words
was brought out by an accidental remark of Solomons, the well-known Banker. ..."
3. Heaven, Hell, Or Hoboken by Ray Neil Johnson (1919)
"And while I'm speaking of rats they are very good friends to us in a way and in
a way they ain't, because they keep us awake at night so the jerries can't ..."
4. His Personal Record: Stories of Railroad Life. Showing the Injustice of the by William John Pinkerton (1904)
"Argentine was twelve miles distant and the handcar was built to run, at its best,
no faster than twenty miles an hour, but the jerries crowded it a little, ..."
5. Little Classics edited by Rossiter Johnson (1874)
"One of the four jerries, he added, was of gigantic magnitude. The play on words
was brought out by an accidental remark of Solomons, the well-known Banker. ..."
6. Little Classics by Rossiter Johnson (1875)
"One of the four jerries, he added, was of gigantic magnitude. The play on words
was brought out by an accidental remark of Solomons, the well-known Banker. ..."
7. The Innocents Abroad, Or, The New Pilgrims' Progress: Being Some Account of by Mark Twain (1881)
"Out of that five millions the small tyrant tried to keep an army of ten thousand
men, pay all the hundreds of useless G/and Eq jerries In Waiting, ..."
8. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1893)
"The first chapters will be published in the next number of the magazine. PICK-UPS
ONLY WORDS. — Beacon : You New Yorkers do not understand Henry jerries' ..."
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