Example Sentences

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Home was, alas! no longer the snug nest in which she was safe from the slings and shanghais of the world.

From The Getting of Wisdom by Richardson, Henry Handel

One may have said that the bantams of the honored guest were not perhaps as small as some other bantams, but that the colossal size of his shanghais was beyond parallel.

From Imaginary Interviews by Howells, William Dean