Lexicographical Neighbors of Stilters
Literary usage of Stilters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1845)
"Amongst other popular customs, now grown obsolete, Mr. Costello gives a curious
account of the Stilters of Namur, who used to fight in a kind of tournament ..."
2. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal by William Chambers, Robert Chambers (1845)
"... the evening before the combat, and had been met at the extremity of the faubourg
by the magistracy of Namur, accompanied by the brigades of stilters. ..."
3. Sitzungsberichte der Königl. Bayer. Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München (1867)
"... des Stilters der 2.Dynastie, bis zürn eisten Jahre des letzten Kaisers dieser D.
576 J.ihre rechne, des letzteren Herrschaft währte noch 52. nach ändern ..."
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