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Definition of Terrifiers
1. terrifier [n] - See also: terrifier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Terrifiers
Literary usage of Terrifiers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of Proceedings (1894)
"I then had terrifiers made, 5 inches in diameter; and kept a man during the day
cleaning out the pipe at the outlet of the mouthpiece. After a short time, ..."
2. The Expositor edited by Samuel Cox, Sir W Robertson Nicoll, James Moffatt (1901)
"... again from the monuments, " his great hosts went about harmlessly ; the whole
land of Shinar and Accad he suffered to have no terrifiers. ..."
3. Travels in West Africa: Congo Français, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley (1897)
"I never came back to the station without having been frightened half out of my
wits, and with one or two of my smaller terrifiers in cleft sticks to bottle. ..."
4. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"I never came back to the station without having been frightened half out of my
wits, and with one or two of my smaller terrifiers in cleft sticks to bottle. ..."
5. Travels in West Africa: Congo Francais, Corisco and Cameroons by Mary Henrietta Kingsley, Albert Carl Ludwig Gotthilf Günther, William Forsell Kirby (1897)
"I never came back to the station without having been frightened half out of my
wits, and with one or two of my smaller terrifiers in cleft sticks to bottle. ..."
6. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"The men looked peaceful and good-tempered, clean, calm, and comfortable, like
the members of a well-ordered community, unlike either terrifiers or terrified ..."
7. Travels in the Slavonic Provinces of Turkey-in-Europe by Georgina Muir Mackenzie, Adelina Paulina Irby (1877)
"... either terrifiers or terrified; it really cost an effort to turn from 'them
and their hospitable offers, and plunge again into a country where every ..."
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