laving
Example Sentences
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Why didn’t they git to the Deerfut before me instead of laving it fur them chaps?
From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Burton Donnel Hughes
It is evident that this pike was laving up against a rainy day.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
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
Kneeling there, stripped to the waist, he began laving his chest and shoulders and dipping his face deep into the cold water.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
As Leibgeber was laving that lion's breast of his with cold water, Firmian noticed that he pushed aside a little key, and asked what it opened.
From Flower, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces; or, the Wedded Life, Death, and Marriage of Firmian Stanislaus Siebenkaes, Parish Advocate in the Burgh of Kuhschnappel. by Jean Paul
