Lexicographical Neighbors of Retraicts
Literary usage of Retraicts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Reports of State Trials: New Series... 1820 to [1858]...by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis by Great Britain State Trials Committee, John Macdonell, John Edward Power Wallis (1898)
"The customs referred to, as differing from the custom of Normandy, regard the
right of succession, partage, dower, retraicts and other like matters, ..."
2. Folk-memory by Walter Johnson (1908)
"... he thought that the pits, which were presumably dene-holes, were ancient
receptacles, or otherwise ' secret retraicts for families and goods '.29 Having ..."
3. American History Told by Contemporaries by Albert Bushnell Hart (1897)
"... and their chiefest strengths and retraicts are in the Handes scituate on the
south side of the entrance, some 60. leagues within the mouth of the said ..."
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