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Definition of Surpriser
1. Noun. A captor who uses surprise to capture the victim.
Definition of Surpriser
1. n. One who surprises.
Definition of Surpriser
1. Noun. someone who surprises ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Surpriser
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Surpriser
Literary usage of Surpriser
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1901)
"... informed me that they were not there, so that I had my journey fo nothing :
and I am not very much surpriser to see that Mr. Evans has rearranged the . ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1910)
"... on the side of a hill, environed with a dyke of eight feet broad, and a thick
mud wall of ten feet high, sufficient to stop a sudden surpriser. ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1880)
"What a surpriser these Sydney fellows will get ! They think nothing can touch
their horse. I am going to send this fellow down to Randwick next spring. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1880)
"... and doing no work the previous day; and he wouldn't touch a bite for anything.
What a surpriser these Sydney fellows will get ! ..."
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