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Definition of Lurks
1. lurk [v] - See also: lurk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lurks
Literary usage of Lurks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1816)
"... he transported hie troops over the Propon tis, and CHAP. boldly led them
against the lurks: in two Moody hat- " ' tit1« thirty thousand of the Moslems ..."
2. Our Old Home, and English Note-books by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1912)
"... for just in the rear of the new-fangled aspect lurks the old arrangement of
court-yards, and rustiness, and grimness, that would not be suspected from ..."
3. A Select Glossary of English Words Used Formerly in Senses Different from by Richard Chenevix Trench (1873)
"... hides itself, and so ‘lurks,' for ‘lurk' and ‘lurch' are identical, explains
this employment of the word. But ‘to lurch,' generally as an active verb, ..."
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