The Czar's Spy Glossary

by William Le Queux

The Czar's Spy Glossary

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Rapacious

Greedy and Voracious

Dainty

Refined and elegant

Surreptitiously

In secret

Volubility

Eloquence and fluency

Booty

Jewels and money obtained illegally

Staggered

Astonished and left him dumbfounded

Astride

With one leg on each side

Tampered

To meddle with and falsify

Squadron

A cavalry unit made of at least two troops

Sordid

Vile and dirty

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