littery
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of littery
Example Sentences
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"Pray, Doctor Larnder," says a spiteful genlmn, willing to keep up the littery conversation, "what is the Cabinet Cyclopaedia?"
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Us littery men I take to be like a pack of schoolboys—childish, greedy, envius, holding by our friends, and always ready to fight.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
"The fourth what!" said I. "The fourth littery man that has been here in twenty-four hours—I'm going to move."
From Chapters from My Autobiography by Twain, Mark
But the vices of the company went against the two littery men, and everybody excep them was for having up poor me.
From The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush by Thackeray, William Makepeace
Like most students and authors, he was decidedly littery.
From Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Philosophers, Volume 8 by Hubbard, Elbert
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