How To Use Claver In A Sentence
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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
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A Missouri voter in reply to a comment from claver
Poll: Hillary Holds Big Leads In Ohio And Pennsylvania
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While claver [clover] blooms white o'er the ley [pasture]
Country Lassie
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` ` 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
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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
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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
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(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
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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
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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.
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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
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Meanwhile Claverhouse had raised a Jacobite force of 2,000 Highland clansmen.
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Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar’s daughter.
Balzac
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Lady Clavering likes to be asked for lunch, and is uncommonly kind, and monstrous hospitable.
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‘Ye may swear that,’ replied the provost — ‘as black a Jacobite as the auld leaven can make him; but a sonsy, merry companion, that none of us think it worth while to break wi’ for all his brags and his clavers.
Redgauntlet
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So the doctor, having read the epistle out to Myra and Mrs. Portman, with many damnatory comments upon the young scapegrace who was goin deeper and deeper into perdition, left those ladies to spread the news through the Clavering society, which they did with their accustomed accuracy and despatch, and strode over to Fairoaks to break the intelligence to the widow.
The History of Pendennis
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Well, we'd just had a wee blether on the universal nature of brotherly love, when a clishmaclaver broke out, over by your kiln.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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Nameless is infuriated that Claverhouse, whose very name is hateful and ridiculous, is always happy, optimistic, cheerful, always laughing his annoying, Gargantuan, laugh ( "his plaguey cachinnations").
“. . .all his race rose up before him in a mighty phantasmagoria. . .”
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The countryside clavered and havered when he bought his pedigree bulls and his pedigree mares.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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-- And that's very true -- I hae nae time to be standing here clavering -- Landlord, get us our breakfast, and see an 'get the yauds fed -- I am for doun to Christy Wilson's, to see if him and me can gree about the luckpenny I am to gie him for his year-aulds.
The Black Dwarf
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For everything I did was a fault except just I would be sitting at home with my old mother, and so I just fell in wi 'McGilp, and left the lassies to claver among themsel's for a year or two, for they will have too many cantrips for a simple man.
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Everybody will ken the right wye o 'it, and will claver and gossip, when they wad 'a be better to mind their ain affairs, an' let ither folk alane.
The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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Belle's wean might be "a tinker's brat" in whispered corners in byres and hay-sheds, where the wenches could claver out of hearing, but the
The McBrides A Romance of Arran
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
The History of Pendennis
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Prince Rose-Red talked without one second's intermission the whole time I was dressing him; and I allowed it, as papa and Una were not here to be disturbed by the clishmaclaver.
Memories of Hawthorne
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It soon became clear to me, that the dialogue about Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like.
The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
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And he would rather claver with a daft quean they call Diana
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North
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In all, 16 rooms have been re-created at Claverton Manor—none more charming than the one dedicated to Shaker furniture, where pride of place is taken by a candleholder with prettily bowed legs, elegant in its simplicity.
Telling Our Story Across the Pond
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The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover]
Robert Burns How To Know Him
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An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane?
Lords of the North
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It was known to all the Claverings — and even to all others who cared about such things — that Lord and Lady Ongar were not happy together, and it had been already said that Lady Ongar had misconducted herself.
The Claverings
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He sat rolled up in the corner like a hedgehog, all through the clishmaclaver.
Dragonfly in Amber
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Thomas took her by the weak side, and usually arrested her "light-horse gallop of clish ma-claver" by some specious story of ghost or hobgoblin adventures, with which he had been detained.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 475, February 5, 1831
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Some of the rooms depicted within Claverton Manor are considerably older than the house itself.
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Smitten by her disinterestedness as well as by her beauty, Lord Clavering would gladly marry her, but is bound by his word plighted to Lord Dunbar's daughter.
Balzac
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Lebanon and Damascus, which was followed up with a clishmaclaver anent dirks, daggers, red cloaks, and other bloody weapons which made all my flesh grue, had some connexion with Taffy's papers on the table -- out of which James had been diverting himself by reading bits here and there, at random like.
The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself
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A deafening bray shattered the dark, and the forest erupted in front of him with a clishmaclaver of crashing and startled shouts.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes
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'Miss Gillian, you've clavered as long as is good for Miss White, and here are the whole clanjamfrie waiting in the road for you.
Beechcroft at Rockstone
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Ice and snow coated everything, in the month of December in Eclaver, and wind gusts reached up to forty miles an hour, at the best of times.
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Peter Claver, which still exists and counts among graduates of its parochial school the singer and rights activist Lena Horne.
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Kathleen has a real connection with the community in Claverley which is why she has been such a successful sub-postmistress for all these years.
Star
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Alan Reade, a civil engineer who lives in Claverley, was a keen youth hosteller and recalls how, as a 12-year-old in August 1953, he and his brother cycled from home to Criccieth for their usual family summer holiday.
Shropshire Star
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George the Fort 'didna fill the throne verra doucely for a' their clishmaclaver, and I don't think young
The House with the Green Shutters
