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Thriller   /θrˈɪlər/   Listen
Thriller

noun
1.
A suspenseful adventure story or play or movie.





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"Thriller" Quotes from Famous Books



... Such was the thriller Tommy had listened to. It hadn't come easy, this story, but only after repeated questions. Now and then, while he was telling it, Joe had looked at Tommy with a wry, wise grin, as if sizing him up. He was little, and he couldn't talk plainly, but he seemed ...
— Frank of Freedom Hill • Samuel A. Derieux
... was spending the summer at Shahwandahgooze, in the Laurentian Mountains, I again met Billy Le Heup, the hunter, and one night when we were listening to a wolf concert I mentioned the foregoing newspaper thriller. Billy laughed and acknowledged that he, too, had read it, but not until several weeks after he had had a chance to investigate, first hand, the very same yarn; for he, too, had been trailing wolf stories all ...
— The Drama of the Forests - Romance and Adventure • Arthur Heming


Words linked to "Thriller" :   adventure story, thrill, heroic tale


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