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Definition of Spillane
1. Noun. United States writer of popular detective novels (born in 1918).
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Literary usage of Spillane
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)
"EDWARD P. spillane. Shea, SIR AMBROSE, b. in Newfoundland, 17 Sept., 1815; d.
in London, 30 July, 1905. At the age of twenty-two he embarked successfully in ..."
2. Table of Cases Alphabetically Arranged as to the Several States in the ...by William Sydenham Torbert, Abraham Clark Freeman by William Sydenham Torbert, Abraham Clark Freeman (1905)
"... spillane v. Fitchburg, 177 Mass. 87, 83 Am. Stetson v. Kempton, 13 Mass.
272, 7 Am. Dec. St. Kep. ..."
3. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1914)
"From what has been said already that is not the question, nor is it one of the
questions on which the issue, whether spillane was or was not appointed ..."
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