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Definition of Pitfalls
1. pitfall [n] - See also: pitfall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pitfalls
Literary usage of Pitfalls
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Natural History of Plants: Their Forms, Growth, Reproduction, and by Anton Kerner von Marilaun (1902)
"Spinous Structures in the pitfalls of Carnivorous Plants. ... spines on the walls
of pitfalls, * Sarracenia purpurea; a piece of the lining of the pitcher ..."
2. Renewing the United Nations System by Erskine Childers (1999)
"PURPOSES AND pitfalls IN UN REFORM As new discoveries are made, new truths
discovered and manners and opinions change with the change of circumstances, ..."
3. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"... the best it may accomplish is to illumine the wayfarer's pathway enough to
aid him in avoiding the pitfalls of ignorance and lust; but its faint glimmer ..."
4. Handbook for Newspaper Workers, Treating Grammar, Punctuation, English by Grant Milnor Hyde (1921)
"Only a few pitfalls and some means to avoid them may be pointed out here to ...
pitfalls of Inaccuracy i. Misstatement of fact results from a variety of ..."
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