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- noun Plural form of
curtailer .
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Examples
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Pooh! mere trifles; the curtailers of its liberties are monsters; and give him time enough, the constant reader is persuaded to believe anything you please.
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Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population, pasturage would include a waste too great to be afforded.
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Pooh! mere trifles; the curtailers of its liberties are monsters; and give him time enough, the constant reader is persuaded to believe anything you please.
Lost Illusions Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Pooh! mere trifles; the curtailers of its liberties are monsters; and give him time enough, the constant reader is persuaded to believe anything you please.
A Distinguished Provincial at Paris Honor�� de Balzac 1824
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Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population, pasturage would include a waste too great to be afforded.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 3 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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Without disease and war, those sweeping curtailers of population, pasturage would include a waste too great to be afforded.
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete Percy Bysshe Shelley 1807
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