laving
Example Sentences
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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 S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
“Little fear of their laving widout me, so nothing will be done till I arrive, as Brian O’Lynn said when he was walking forth to be hanged.”
From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Burton Donnel Hughes
Before it—I might say through it—wimples the Gala, almost laving its thresholds.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 12 by Various
"S'sh," he cautioned, laving a hand on her arm.
From Juggernaut by Alice Campbell
When the rider appeared an eager flame was laving the rocks in the yellow light, and Slavens was standing, peering beyond its radius.
From Claim Number One by George W. (George Washington) Ogden
