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Definition of Shreds
1. shred [v] - See also: shred
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shreds
Literary usage of Shreds
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"This treaty, however, was soon torn to shreds, and in spite of William's appeals
the Irish Parliament refused to ratify it, and embarked on fresh penal ..."
2. Urology: Diseases of the Urinary Organs, Diseases of the Male Genital Organs by Edward Loughborough Keyes (1917)
"CONCERNING shreds.—The purulent urine of acute urethritis does not contain shreds,
... To the general practitioner shreds simply mean that the general ..."
3. The history of America by William Robertson (1822)
"... disconnected, and obscure, that it is an unpleasant task to collect from
different parts of his book, and piece together the detached shreds of a story, ..."
4. A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots and Their Music by Henry Edward Krehbiel (1917)
"... its frequent flights toward ideal realms, its accents of passion, its splendid
picturesqueness, it presented itself as a "thing of shreds and patches. ..."
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