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Definition of Spooking
1. spook [v] - See also: spook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spooking
Literary usage of Spooking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"But in that case it follows that people are made God-fearing, and that the Devil
by this practice of spooking shows himself a friend rather than an enemy of ..."
2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, John William Cunliffe, Ashley Horace Thorndike, Harry Morgan Ayres, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"'But in that case it follows that people are made God-fearing, and that the Devil
by this practice of spooking shows himself a friend rather than an enemy ..."
3. Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain (1896)
"... and spooking around it and prying into it was not to pass the time—it had a
strictly business end in view. ..."
4. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"1 "thers, in spooking, from their smooth address, Might make their weakness or
their crimes seem The flow'ry art was never made for nv1, [lest, ..."
5. The Writings of Mark Twain [pseud.] by Mark Twain, Charles Dudley Warner (1899)
"Therefore, as you see, the court's persistent fashion of coming back to that
subject every little while and spooking around it and prying into it was not to ..."
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