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Definition of Stealths
1. stealth [n] - See also: stealth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stealths
Literary usage of Stealths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Calendar of the Carew Manuscripts: Preserved in the Archi-episcopal Library by John Sherren Brewer, George Carew Totnes (1867)
"... which stealths and robberies be committed by light persons that have no
dwellings of themselves nor places to keep their stealths in, and therefore they ..."
2. An Historical Account of the Plantation in Ulster at the Commencement of the by George Hill (1877)
"But the stealths complained of in the King's letter were not confined to ...
be made to the petitioners for stealths committed upon them last winter (273). ..."
3. Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First by Edmund Spenser, John Davies, Henry Morley, Fynes Moryson (1890)
"And surely so it is used at this day, as a privilege place of spoils and stealths ;
for the county of Tipperary, which is now the only County Palatine in ..."
4. Ireland Under Elizabeth and James the First by Edmund Spenser, John Davies, Henry Morley, Fynes Moryson (1890)
"For, first, if there be any outlaws or loose people, as they are never without
some, which live Upon stealths and spoils, they are evermore succoured and ..."
5. The British Plutarch: Containing the Lives of the Most Eminent Divines by Francis Wrangham (1816)
"For first, if there be any outlaws, or loose people (as they are never without
some) which live upon stealths and spoils, they are evermore succoured and ..."
6. A Short History of the Irish People by Alexander George Richey (1887)
"... stealths, and robberies by night and day committed.' On : . complaint of the
inhabitants of both parties, in the absence of nay lord deputy, ..."
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