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Pickery  n.  Petty theft. (Scot.)





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"Pickery" Quotes from Famous Books



... respect to rank and family? Will you tell me that doctrine can be held by men of birth and legal education? No, sir; if a trifle stolen in the street is termed mere pickery, but is elevated into sacrilege if the crime be committed in a church, so, according to the just gradations of society, the guilt of an injury is enhanced by the rank of the person to whom it is offered, done, ...
— Guy Mannering • Sir Walter Scott
 
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