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Definition of Shyer
1. shier [n -S] - See also: shier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shyer
Literary usage of Shyer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Among the Isles of Shoals by Celia Thaxter (1873)
"Sometimes the round head of a seal moved about among the kelp-covered rocks.
A few are seen every winter, and are occasionally shot; but they are shyer iind ..."
2. A New General Biographical Dictionary by Hugh James Rose (1857)
"... (Profoundly silent, for they never spoke) One shyer still, who quite detested
talk; If stung by spleen, at once away he broke To groves of pine, ..."
3. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"shyer, 67 SW 856, 859, 108 Tenn. 444. 58 LRA 173. Where a defendant is a nonresident
at the time of proceedings for divorce, and is not served with process ..."
4. Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an by James Thorne (1876)
"Bishop's Wood is also still visited by many of our rarer and shyer birds, among
which Mr. Harting* enumerates ..."
5. Handbook to the Environs of London: Alphabetically Arranged, Containing an by James Thorne (1876)
"Bishop's Wood is also still visited by many of our rarer and shyer birds, among
which Mr. Harting* enumerates the Lesser Spotted and the Black Woodpecker, ..."
6. Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports: Supplementary to Rose's ...by Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose by Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court, Walter Malins Rose (1905)
"shyer, 108 Tenn. 457, 67 SW 859, hold- ing personal judgment for money, rendered
against nonresident, who is not served with process and does not appear, ..."
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