Lexicographical Neighbors of Thofts
Literary usage of Thofts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"... a bar of wood put inside of a coble for the seats or thofts to rest upon.
Within recollection no fishing boat was without a "holey-stone" suspended from ..."
2. Commentaries on American Law by James Kent (1873)
"But the law distinguished between thefts by mariners and by passengers, and the
master was not liable for thofts by the latter. ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1796)
"... he is in general entertaining and instructive : but his reflections are too
long, and occur too frequently : many of thofts which are of a political ..."
4. The Life of the Right Honourable Sir Edward Coke, Knt., Lord Chief Justice by Humphry William Woolrych (1826)
"Your Lordship therefore vouchsafe me plase in your good thofts, till I shall
deserue the contrary, and judge me by your ..."
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