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Definition of Reprievals
1. reprieval [n] - See also: reprieval
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reprievals
Literary usage of Reprievals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Tar in Fact and Fiction: The Poetry Pathos, and Humour of the by Charles Napier Robinson (1909)
"His sleeps are but reprievals of his dangers, and when he wakes, 'tis but next
stage to dying. His wisdom is the coldest part about him, for it ever points ..."
2. Historical Studies by John Richard Green, Alice Stopford Green (1903)
"... the most comic of reprievals imprisoned both of them in the Tower. It is that
life in the Tower that gives us the real Raleigh of history. ..."
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