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- verb Present participle of
pickeer .
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Examples
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But still, by the mind's eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate's supper-room to a thieves 'ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.
Edinburgh Picturesque Notes Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But still, by the mind's eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate's supper-room to a thieves 'ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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But still, by the mind’s eye, he may be seen, a man harassed below a mountain of duplicity, slinking from a magistrate’s supper-room to a thieves’ ken, and pickeering among the closes by the flicker of a dark lamp.
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