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Definition of Tricksters
1. trickster [n] - See also: trickster
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tricksters
Literary usage of Tricksters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 by James Ford Rhodes (1906)
"The Nation [presumably Godkin] declared that the officials of Georgia were "
probably as bad a lot of political tricksters and adventurers ..."
2. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"... that while the rest of the world ate and drank poison, the Grange lived on
its own solid substance, defying male- factory Radical tricksters. ..."
3. The Works of Charles Paul de Kock, with a General Introduction by Jules Claretie by Paul de Kock (1902)
"CHAPTER II tricksters, GAMBLERS, CRIMINALS IN being freed from the presence of
his wife, the sight of whom had still power to awaken the painful monitions ..."
4. The Mythology of All Races by Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch (1916)
"tricksters AND WONDER-FOLK*8 The telling of animal stories leads naturally to
the formation of groups of tales in which certain animals assume constant and ..."
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