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Definition of Filchers
1. filcher [n] - See also: filcher
Lexicographical Neighbors of Filchers
Literary usage of Filchers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of Researches in by Isaac Disraeli (1824)
"... OF LITERARY filchers. AN honest historian at times will have to inflict severe
strokes on his favourites. This has fallen to my lot, for in the course ..."
2. The Taeping Rebellion in China: Its Origins, Progress, and Present Condition by William Henry Sykes (1863)
"This province has been a prey to the " Honan filchers" for many years. ...
These " filchers " are the men that defeated the famous Sun Kuh Xing Sin in ..."
3. Representative English Comedies: With Introductory Essays and Notes, an by Charles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler (1903)
"Yes, yes, even at Hob filchers house, by him that bought and solde me ! A cup of
ale had in his hand, ... And, Gammer, one thing I can tel, Hob filchers ..."
4. Specimens of the Pre-Shaksperean Drama by John Matthews Manly (1897)
"Yes, yes, euen at Hob filchers house, by him thais bought and solde me ; A cup
of ale had in his hand, and a crab lay in the fyer. ..."
5. A Legacy of Historical Gleanings by Catharina Van Rensselaer Bonney (1875)
"The mandarins well know that these fearful filchers aim at plunder, taking a
place they remain in it as long as it affords them the means of subsistence, ..."
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