laving

Example Sentences

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It must be remembered that at table persons of all ranks used their fingers instead of forks, and the laving of the hands during the meals was important for comfort and cleanliness.

From Women of England by James, Bartlett Burleigh

These were quiet days in the little white house, with only the narrow quay underneath, and the changing groups of washerwomen, bare-armed, lilac-bloused, laving and lifting in the tremulous heat-haze of the afternoon.

From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)

As though laving the cross-street’s dirty feet, the East River shimmered dimly in the lights from shore and from passing steam craft.

From Lonesome Town by Dorrance, Ethel

"She's always been a queer creature," Boyd faltered, evasively, without looking up, and she saw him nervously laving his bony hands in the sheer, unsuggestive emptiness about him.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

They had sacked Urumtsi, and were laving close siege to Manas.

From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Boulger, Demetrius Charles