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Definition of Housebreakings
1. housebreaking [n] - See also: housebreaking
Lexicographical Neighbors of Housebreakings
Literary usage of Housebreakings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Original Sources edited by Oliver Joseph Thatcher (1915)
"Concerning Thefts or housebreakings of Freemen. 1. If any freeman steal, outside
of the house ... Concerning Thefts or housebreakings on the Part of Slaves. ..."
2. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1904)
"Leaving out of account the highway robberies and housebreakings, a matter of
common knowledge, it is estimated that ^710000 in petty thefts was disposed of ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1857)
"... housebreakings, and the from your head like those of a like, to an extent
which never, in my lobster, and an expression of conn- remembrance at least, ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1898)
"... they had rigorously to obey; explaining to them especially whatever, in case
of conflagrations, housebreakings, thunder-storms, or transits of troops, ..."
5. The Fortnightly Review (1872)
"... of their tacit assumption that among works of genius and industry, as among
murders and housebreakings, the chief business of a judge is to condemn. ..."
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