Lexicographical Neighbors of Pettifoggings
Literary usage of Pettifoggings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"... and imaginary dark pettifoggings of Oliver ; and asked candid mankind, Whether
there is anything particular in them ? Mankind answering No, fire can be ..."
2. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"... in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic
and foreign, as the course of true-love never got entangled in before. ..."
3. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1858)
"... in such a jungle of intrigues, pettifoggings, treacheries, diplomacies domestic
and foreign, as the course of true-love never got entangled in before. ..."
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