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Definition of Simplers
1. simpler [n] - See also: simpler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simplers
Literary usage of Simplers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ladies' Companion (1855)
"Spittal, Goodman's-fields, and thence to Rat- cliffe (favourite haunts with the
simplers of those days), were pastures and ..."
2. The International Socialist Review by Algie Martin Simons (1907)
"As a matter of fact along about tha.t time some of the pure and simplers in 'Frisco
were becoming ILI i te lukewarm toward the "Labor" administration. ..."
3. The Journal of a Naturalist by John Leonard Knapp (1831)
"No one ever yet thought of accusing our old simplers of the vice of avarice, or
love of lucre ; yet their " thrift" is always to be seen: we have their ..."
4. Doctors and patients, or, Anecdotes of the medical world and curiosities of by John Timbs (1876)
"ILLUSTRIOUS simplers.* The vegetable drug Mithridate long handed down the name
of the king of Pontus, its discoverer ; 'better known,' says Gerard, ..."
5. Woodland Idyls by Willis Stanley Blatchley (1912)
"simplers there were in plenty in those old days when they had to depend almost
... The simplers and herbalists of a century ago have vanished as a race, ..."
6. A Garden with House Attached by Sarah Warner Brooks (1904)
"According to the old " simplers " " the roote of the Caraway may be eaten ...
The simplers have advised " gentlewomen " " to nourse it up in their kitchen ..."
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