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- noun Plural form of
hatcher .
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Examples
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The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light.
Les Miserables 2008
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And there, to the west where the Council owns the land, where the rampant regrowth of slash came from neglect, where the windblown weeds gather and the underfloor shrieks for a match, there the watchers watch and the hatchers hatch and the trees grow green with envy.
The Trees Grow Green With Envy Ivan Donn Carswell 2007
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The air round about rung again with the cries and howlings of these rascally losers of hatchers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The air round about rung again with the cries and howlings of these rascally losers of hatchers.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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He observed that he would not be duped; that the villains were known; that they were Septembrizers, the hatchers of every mischief.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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Probably, therefore, the hatchers of this plot were Sadducees, who hated Pharisees even more than they did Christians.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts Alexander Maclaren 1868
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The shades, those sombre hatchers of primitive Christianity, only awaited an opportunity to bring about an explosion under the Caesars and to inundate the human race with light.
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The eggs are hatched in ovens, and then the young ones are brought up by people who buy them from the hatchers.
Mamma's Stories about Birds Mary Elizabeth Southwell Dudley Leathley 1858
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For a short time the two chief hatchers of the grand report, Messrs. von
Debit and Credit Translated from the German of Gustav Freytag Gustav Freytag 1855
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He observed that he would not be duped; that the villains were known; that they were Septembrizers, the hatchers of every mischief.
The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836
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