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Definition of Thrillers
1. thriller [n] - See also: thriller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thrillers
Literary usage of Thrillers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Amateur Circus Life by Ernest Berkeley Balch, Ernest Berkeley Blach (1916)
"Thrillers A practical way of improving a programme is to use a fake elephant.
With the aid of Baby Jumbo you can make a most attractive act for the clown. ..."
2. The Urban Condition: Space, Community, and Self in the Contemporary Metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"Multicultural thrillers have, in this sense, a double responsibility: besides
propagating a form of social awareness that originated in American colleges ..."
3. The Children's Library, a Dynamic Factor in Education by Sophia Hill Hulsizer Powell (1917)
"An author of "thrillers" was quoted as follows by the Boy Scout librarian at the
American booksellers' convention, 1915 :' "The decline of Shorty Muldoon, ..."
4. Effective Expression: A Textbook on Composition and Rhetoric for the Four by Charles Elbert Rhodes (1921)
"The reason detective stories, stories of adventure, and "thrillers," have ...
The bad effect of cheap melodramas and the worst kind of "thrillers," is due ..."
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