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Definition of Stonewallers
1. stonewaller [n] - See also: stonewaller
Lexicographical Neighbors of Stonewallers
Literary usage of Stonewallers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1876)
"... of this Parliamentary campaign had yet to be fought before the " iron hand"
could be proclaimed victorious and the " stonewallers" completely subdued. ..."
2. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1882)
"Thereupon the “ stonewallers “ objected, and asked for authority to justify the
chairman's ruling, which he declined to give, saying that he would not allow ..."
3. General Lee by Fitzhugh Lee (1894)
"Tell the young women to work hard for the brave stonewallers." And once more,
from Orange County, April 21, 1864: "Your note with bag of socks reached me ..."
4. Cricket by Allan Gibson Steel, Robert Henry Lyttelton, William Gilbert Grace, Richard Arthur Henry Mitchell, Frederick Gale, Andrew Lang (1898)
"... in first a regular ' sticker,' one who scores at the rate of eight or ten an
hour. The stonewallers of our cricket-fields have a great deal to answer ..."
5. Stratford Hall and the Lees Connected with Its History: Biographical by Frederick Warren Alexander (1912)
"I shall continue to furnish them till they are supplied. Tell the young women to
work hard for the brave stonewallers. ..."
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