laving

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Laving their individual sensibilities in the "implacable light" of the Mediterranean littoral, these writers perceive and share the region's Antaeus-like grip on life for life's sake.

From Time Magazine Archive

The clouds hang low and heavy with warm rain,— And when I come again, Lo, with your blossoms his loved grave shall be Blue as the marvellous sea Laving the borders of his Italy!

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

Then list the moan Of the billows' foam, Laving with surges thy silv'ry beach!

From Poems by Eddy, Mary Baker

Then put to the water ten Gallons of Honey, which dissolve with much Laving it; then presently boil it gently, skimming it all the while, till it be free from scum.

From The Closet of Sir Kenelm Digby Knight Opened by MacDonell, Anne

Laving him I remark’d it, and desired, Myself, to tell thee, but he, ever-wise, Compressing with both hands my lips, forbad.

From The Odyssey of Homer by Cowper, William