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Definition of Swanks
1. swank [v] - See also: swank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Swanks
Literary usage of Swanks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Southwestern Historical Quarterly by Texas State Historical Association, Eugene Campbell Barker, Herbert Eugene Bolton, University of Texas at Austin Center for Studies in Texas History (1901)
"swanks, not thinking aa did McClane, was determined to fight, ... Soon after five
o'clock, swanks, at the head of ibis company, gave a fierce cowboy yell ..."
2. Annotated Cases, American and English: Containing the Important Cases by Harry Noyes Greene, William Mark McKinney (1917)
"The Grant deed vested in the swanks title to the 102 acres, ... But for the grant
to the swanks, plaintiff would, upon the death of his wife, ..."
3. Bulletin by Geological Survey (U.S.) (1915)
"284 swanks ranch, 4.1 miles northeast of, 300 feet southeast of gorge, 20 feet
north of road, 40 feet south of Clear Creek; iron post stamped "10211 Ouray ..."
4. Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Court of Appeals of the State of Texas by Alexander Melvorne Jackson (1880)
"... the State of the proof of the honesty and good character of William M. swanks,
the person alleged to have been killed. The State's witnesses, the two ..."
5. The American State Reports: Containing the Cases of General Value and by Abraham Clark Freeman (1895)
"... after swanks offered to employ plaintiff as book-keeper, at a salary of
seventy-five dollars per month, if he would resign bis position as agent, ..."
6. Lyra Elegantiarum: A Collection of Some of the Best Specimens of Vers de by Frederick Locker-Lampson (1867)
"... THE ROMANCE OF THE swanks NEST. LITTLE Ellie sits alone 'Mid the beeches of
a meadow By a stream-side on the grass, And the trees are showering down ..."
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