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Definition of Manhunts
1. manhunt [n] - See also: manhunt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manhunts
Literary usage of Manhunts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story by George Orwell (1996)
"The communist manhunts in Spain, which he had narrowly escaped, coincided with
the Moscow purges, he wrote, and "taught me how easily totalitarian ..."
2. The Cambridge Medieval History by John Bagnell Bury, James Pounder Whitney (1913)
"But on the defensive when well led they were excellent in a style which was forced
upon them by the continual manhunts of the pirates and the mounted nomads ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Father Viva, began a series of manhunts in the Jíbaro country, but with so little
result that in five months only three hundred and seventy-two Indians were ..."
4. The French Revolution: A Political History, 1789-1804 by François-Alphonse Aulard (1910)
"They were ill-treated in the streets ; there were positive manhunts. The tribunals
condemned a number of them for malversation (but we have not the records ..."
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