claver

How To Use claver In A Sentence

• But, unfortunately, should any untoward "o'er-night clishmaclaver" occasion the neglect of this duty, and the fire be left, like envy, to feed upon its own vitals, a remedy is at hand in the shape of a pan "o 'live coals" from some more provident neighbour, resident in an upper or lower "flat;" and thus without bundle-wood or "shavings," is the mischief cured. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 536, March 3, 1832
• A Missouri voter in reply to a comment from claver Poll: Hillary Holds Big Leads In Ohio And Pennsylvania
• While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture] Country Lassie
• ` ` Ay, 'said his patron, ` ` but ye ken we maun hae turnips for the lang sheep, billie, and muckle hard wark to get them, baith wi the pleugh and the howe; and that wad sort ill wi' sitting on the broomy knowe, and cracking about Black Dwarfs, and siccan clavers, as was the gate lang syne, when the short sheep were in the fashion. '' The Black Dwarf
• I tauld them I wad vindicate nae man's faults; but set apart what he had done again the law o 'the country, and the hership o' the Lennox, and the misfortune o 'some folk losing life by him, he was an honester man than stood on ony o' their shanks -- And whatfor suld I mind their clavers? Rob Roy — Complete
• Hoots wi 'y'r giddy claver," said he, before I had spoken a word; and walking off, he sat down at some distance. Lords of the North
• (Now, don't put any of your squinting constructions on this, or have any clishmaclaver about it among our acquaintances.) Robert Burns How To Know Him
• And this mad quean, after cracking like a pen-gun, and skirling like a pea-hen for the haill night, behoves just to hae hadden her tongue when her clavers might have dune some gude! The Heart of Mid-Lothian
• Chilean-born Marco Claveria (vocals, tres, guiro, acoustic guitar) was introduced into the mix, then trombonist J.C. Jones was replaced with the duelling brass of Jim and Craig Brenan.
• Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat? Watershed