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The paviours in the street below were taking their after-dinner nap with their heads on their empty food baskets.

From The Red Room by Strindberg, August

As if in imitation of the paviours of Cincinnati, portions of my Company now began to strike.

From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.

I mean what our paviours call a maiden, a thing with which they ram down the paving-stones in the roads.

From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)

On that occasion it is said two English paviours in Fleet Street bet that they would pave more in a day than four Scotchmen could.

From Old and New London Volume I by Thornbury, Walter

To avoid this inconvenient necessity, the Brave made proposals of bribery to the paviours last night, and induced them to pledge themselves that the carriage should come up at seven this evening.

From The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete by Forster, John