heaves

How To Use heaves In A Sentence

• They were susceptible to coughs and allergies and heaves and a highly contagious condition called strangles, in which pus discharges from the nostrils, and abscesses form in the lymph nodes under the jaw and sometimes burst. Gone Like the Wind
• [295] Burns's Lines to a Mouse: "a daimen-icker in a thrave," that is, an ear of corn out of two dozen sheaves. The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford
• [171] An occasional ear of corn in a thrave, -- that is, twenty-four sheaves. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
• Schythes were swung, sheaves were tied and built into stooks in an overflowing gesture of co-operation and goodwill.
• A daimen icker in a thrave [odd ear, 24 sheaves] 'S a sma 'request; [Is] Robert Burns How To Know Him
• A young hoodlum heaves a brick through the window of a baker's shop.
• What is the specific legislation under which, if, a 15-year old boy heaves a brick in somebody's window and he has done it many times before, he might end up in detention?
• He heaves a great gangly shrug and has some more cake.
• I was struck - flabbergasted, really - by the velocity of the heaves.
• Wides and no-balls were matched even by heaves and slogs, and on another day, India could have easily been reduced to 25 for 4 with a similar approach.