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Definition of Spences
1. spence [n] - See also: spence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spences
Literary usage of Spences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico V. 3/4 by Frederick Webb Hodge (2003)
"Teit: 4 minor bands, the Lytton band, the Nicola band, the spences Bridge band,
and the Upper Fraser band. In addition the following subdivisions are ..."
2. Traditions of the Thompson River Indians of British Columbia by James Alexander Teit, Franz Boas (1898)
"Name of a place about six miles above spences Bridge, on the north side of the
river. The bar and rapid in the river there are called ..."
3. The American Antiquarian and Oriental Journal by Stephen Denison Peet (1901)
"spences Bridge is in the Thompson Valley, twenty-two miles above Lytton, ...
The eli mate and natural resources resemble those of Lytton and spences Bridge, ..."
4. The Life of John Hunter by Jesse Foot (1794)
"... for the family of the spences,—as he has here publicly avowed it. After dealing
out his cautions to the ..."
5. The Law Reports by Great Britain Court of Chancery, George Wirgman Hemming (1869)
"Further, it is not proved that spences patent is bad. All that is shewn is that
a person of the name of Mennon took out a similar latent in 1856, ..."
6. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"Surely the spences, left behind in cloudy, sterile Scotland, ploughing sour
moorland», or drawing meagre profits from the retail с '. ..."
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