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Definition of Pelted
1. pelt [v] - See also: pelt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pelted
Literary usage of Pelted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hawthorne and His Circle by Julian Hawthorne (1903)
"... themselves— A Unitarian clergyman with his fat wife—Apparent license under
courteous restraint—He laughed and pelted and was pelted—William Story, ..."
2. The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England by John Campbell Campbell (1846)
"f In the following year, while residing in the Tower, she was pelted by threatened
with violent treatment by the citizens of London, mob. and she resolved ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... For fifteen miles, they follow'd and pelted us, we scarce had time to pull a
trigger; But did you ever know a retreat performed ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"The canons refused to bury him within the cathedral, and the people pelted the
hearse with stones. Some Latin verses by him are preserved in the British ..."
5. The Writings of James Monroe: Including a Collection of His Public and by James Monroe (1901)
"It seems as if I can never get home after the discharge of important trusts
abroad, and most faithfully, in peace. My head must be pelted by the storm if ..."
6. Darkness and Daylight; Or, Lights and Shadows of New York Life: A Woman's by Helen Campbell, Thomas Wallace Knox, Thomas Byrnes (1892)
"... on the Bowery — Pit and Peanuts — pelted with Rotten Eggs —Concert Halls —Police
Raids — Dime Museums and their Freaks—Fraud and Impudence — Outcasts of ..."
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