avers

Example Sentences

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Not yet: those green hill-sides, those fields and cattle, must refresh him better than my clavers, after his grim stony mount of purgatory.

From The Trial by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

In chase o' thee, what crowds hae swerv'd Frae common sense, or sunk enerv'd 'Mang heaps o' clavers: And och! o'er aft thy joes hae starv'd, 'Mid a' thy favours!

From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert

I cheated the leddy for your clavers, but I wasna gaun to cheat my joe.

From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir

It’s sheer nonsense to tell such idle clavers about me.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

But noo the bell is ringin' in; To tak their places, folk begin; The minister himsel' will shune Be up the gate, Filled fu' wi' clavers about sin An' man's estate.

From Underwoods by Stevenson, Robert Louis