Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanghaiers
Literary usage of Shanghaiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-day Iniquity by Edward Alsworth Ross (1907)
"Moreover, if they are to put up a good fight for the ship, it behooves them to
rid it of the buccaneers, wreckers, and shanghaiers that now impudently claim ..."
2. Sin and Society: An Analysis of Latter-day Iniquity by Edward Alsworth Ross (1907)
"... they are to put up a good fight for the ship, it behooves them to rid it of
the buccaneers, wreckers, and shanghaiers that now impudently claim ..."
3. Mystic Isles of the South Seas by Frederick O'Brien (1921)
"... his valley of Tai-o-hae, in the island of Nuka- hiva, a victim of shanghaiers,
a cook on a whaler, a tattooed man in English penny shows, a repatriate, ..."
4. Genealogical and Memorial Encyclopedia of the State of Maryland: A Record of by Richard Henry Spencer, American Historical Society (1919)
"... a record of activity in the stamping out of crime against Federal law that
stands unequalled. The "shanghaiers" of the Chesapeake learned to fear ..."
5. The Skipper and the Skipped: Being the Shore Log of Cap'n Aaron Sproul by Holman Day (1911)
"... and was knowin' what it meant, and then let them three shanghaiers come in
here and shove this bloodsucker bus'ness onto me, and git away all safe and ..."
6. Sitzungsberichte der philosophisch-historischen Classe der kaiserlichen by Kaiserl. Akademie der Wissenschaften in Wien Philosophisch-Historische Klasse (1890)
"... seiner jetzigen Aussprache nach auf Grund drr Mittheilung und Anweisung eines
shanghaiers besehrieben, wonach derselbe ..."
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