How To Use Paviour In A Sentence
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He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the
Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2
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In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal.
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Sections of paviours forming the parking area were uneven.
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Sections of paviours forming the parking area were uneven.
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Once the new paviours are down on Stricklandgate, it will cost hundreds of thousands to undo.
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The paviours beetled the paving stones and loose earth.
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Once the new paviours are down on Stricklandgate, it will cost hundreds of thousands to undo.
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One estate agent of legend described a drive as a 'multi-vehicular block paviour driveway/parking facility'.
Times, Sunday Times
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In many cases, slabs and setts are poorly laid with considerable discrepancies from paviour to paviour giving an uneven surface which is abnormal.
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The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.
Oliver Twist
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The paviours beetled the paving stones and loose earth.