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Definition of Pluckiest
1. plucky [adj] - See also: plucky
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pluckiest
Literary usage of Pluckiest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1918)
"... CHAPTER XVI THE pluckiest MAN ALIVE ONE day last spring an American Admiral
shocks hands with a mere warrant-officer, a simple non-com., of the French ..."
2. Our Navy at Work: The Yankee Fleet in French Waters as Seen by Reginald by Reginald Wright Kauffman (1918)
"... CHAPTER XVI THE pluckiest MAN ALIVE ONE day last spring an American Admiral
shocks hands with a mere warrant-officer, a simple non-com., of the French ..."
3. Famous Scouts, Including Trappers, Pioneers, and Soldiers of the Frontier by Charles Haven Ladd Johnston (1910)
"... SIMON KENTON: THE pluckiest WOODSMAN UPON THE OHIO FRONTIER IN the year 1773,
three woodsmen lay before a blazing fire in the American wilderness. ..."
4. Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the by Charles Anderson Dana (1898)
"... Canada—Detecting the plot to burn New York, and the plan to invade Vermont—Story
of the cleverest and pluckiest of spies and his remarkable adventures. ..."
5. Recollections of the Civil War: With the Leaders at Washington and in the by Charles Anderson Dana (1898)
"... Canada—Detecting the plot to burn New York, and the plan to invade Vermont—Story
of the cleverest and pluckiest of spies and his remarkable adventures. ..."
6. The Bookman (1907)
"SOLD BY DRUGGISTS & GROCERS EVERYWHERE THE pluckiest WOMAN—(Cou/'J.) has just
started on an official visit to Morocco —is, without doubt, the pluckiest ..."
7. Novels and romances of the author of Waverley by Walter Scott (1885)
"... he's the squarest and pluckiest man on top of ground, and that you can bet on.
Why, didn't he nurse his poor sick servant for five long weeks; ..."
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