Lexicographical Neighbors of Trovers
Literary usage of Trovers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Quarterly Anti-slavery Magazine by American Anti-Slavery Society (1836)
"As a specimen of Hooker's " suffering," take the history of his quarrel with
Walter trovers, his colleague in the Temple pulpit. ..."
2. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1871)
"'Deed, sir, I would dae that right willingly, but the trovers, ye see — the trovers !
They not only ate up a' the eggs, but the hen and the cock as weel ! ..."
3. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1894)
"Oh, confound the trovers I Can you give me some eggs without the ham ?' THE trovers.
SALMON of forty pounds' weight are sometimes caught in Loch Eck, ..."
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