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Definition of Spongers
1. sponger [n] - See also: sponger
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spongers
Literary usage of Spongers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Notebooks (1771-1862) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"spongers.—Barlow.— Browne Cutting.—Return Voyage.—A Dinner at Mr. Jeffrey's.
ON a Sunday about the i6th of August, 1790,1 met in the Public Walk at Boston, ..."
2. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Note-books. (1771-1862.) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"... Debate in the National Assembly— Mirabeau—A Glimpse of the Royal
Family—spongers—Barlow— Browne Cutting—Return Voyage—A Dinner at Mr. Jeffrey's. ..."
3. Corea or Cho-sen, the land of the morning calm by Arnold Henry Savage Landor (1895)
"CHAPTER VI -Corean children — The family — Clans — spongers — Hospitality —
Spinning-tops — Toys — Kite-flying — Games — How babies are sent to sleep. ..."
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