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Definition of Spencers
1. spencer [n] - See also: spencer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spencers
Literary usage of Spencers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Studies in Peerage and Family History by J. Horace Round (1901)
"VII The Rise of the spencers THAT quaint old work Lloyd's State Worthies is
responsible for this sketch of the first Lord Spencer:— He was the fifth knight ..."
2. Old Ballads: Historical and Narrative, with Some of Modern Date by Thomas Evans (1810)
"... Wife to King Edward II. with the Downfall of Jthe spencers. ... were the
spencers, and of condition ill: All England, and the king likewise, ..."
3. The Jonson Allusion-Book: A Collection of Allusions to Ben Jonson from 1597-1700 by Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams (1922)
"... doe not looke for spencers or Daniels well-composed numbers; or the deepe
conceits of now-flourishing ..."
4. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"—Mr. Herbert spencers Explanations.—An Internal Power necessary, as shown by
Facts of Comparative Anatomy.—Of Teratology.—M. St. Hilaire.—Prof. ..."
5. Letters and Journals of Mrs. Calderwood of Polton from England, Holland and by Margaret (Steuart) Calderwood (1884)
"SPA and its Waters: Mr. Luck: Mr. Hay: Dutch Jews in the Ball-room: Mr. Hay's Farro
Bank: The spencers: Young Perry and his Governor : Mrs. Poyntz and the ..."
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