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Definition of Shanties
1. shanty [n] - See also: shanty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shanties
Literary usage of Shanties
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Boys Handy Book by Daniel Carter Beard (1890)
"WINTER FISHING—SPEARING AND SNARING- FISHERMEN'S MOVABLE shanties, ETC. The pleasures
of fishing are naturally an^ almost invariably connected in our minds ..."
2. Pen and Pencil Sketches of the Great Riots: An Illustrated History of the by Joel Tyler Headley (1882)
"Strange Assortment of Plunder gathered in the Cellars and shanties of the
Rioters.—Search for it exasperates the Irish.—Noble Conduct of the Sanitary Police ..."
3. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"A CLUSTER OF shanties IN SHANTYTOWN. The investigator who regarded it simply as
the capital of the kingdom of Misrule soon found his mistake. ..."
4. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"A CLUSTER OK shanties IN SHANTYTOWN. The investigator who regarded it simply as
the capital of the kingdom of Misrule soon found his mistake. ..."
5. Great Cities in America: Their Problems and Their Government by Delos Franklin Wilcox (1910)
""Alleys, tenements, and shanties." — I have already quoted Mr. Weller's definition
of the " average alley" in the city of Washington. ..."
6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1892)
"fi~h through the ice is largely curried on, and at one time over 2.000 persons
have camped out on the ice in small shanties. The other industries in 1887 ..."
7. Girls and Education by Le Baron Russell Briggs (1911)
"One is by looking beyond the scroll-saw shanties with signboards on them, beyond
the strutting youth with his hand thrust into the arm of that awful girl in ..."
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