单词 | paviour |
例句 | The paviours in the street below were taking their after-dinner nap with their heads on their empty food baskets. The Red Room 2011-08-13T02:00:26.943Z As if in imitation of the paviours of Cincinnati, portions of my Company now began to strike. The Mapleson Memoirs, vol II 1848-1888 2011-05-26T02:00:18.807Z So the whole city visited Swamp Spring en masse, From attorney to sweep, from physician to paviour, To drink of cold water at sixpence a glass, And learn true politeness and genteel behaviour. Fanny With Other Poems 2011-01-01T03:00:27.707Z But it is obvious that the paviour in a field hops the clod; that the clodhopper in a street paces the pavé. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) 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. Old and New London Volume I It needs a three days’ fast or a paviour’s appetite to induce entrance into such a place. Tales from Blackwood, Volume 7 They were "maidens" among the paviour folk, and determined not to give up this honourable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled rammers. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing A Rustic is a clodhopper; an Urbane is a paviour. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) 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. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete The intervals are filled up by a paviour, who, to every stroke of his rammer, adds a loud, distinct, and echoing, Haugh! The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency I mean what our paviours call a maiden, a thing with which they ram down the paving-stones in the roads. What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales As he adopted the phrase with a parental fondness, the father was called the “paviour.” Rattlin the Reefer It sounded exactly like the affected “Hough!” which paviours give vent to, when wielding their mallets and ramming down the stones of the roadway! She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. A paviour, of the name of Obrien, assured me in 1750, that he only meant to sleep one night in Birmingham, in his way from London to Dublin. An History of Birmingham (1783) O ye paviours of the dreary road along which their cannon rolls for conquest! my blood throbs at every stroke of your rammers. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 329, March, 1843 A capital plan is to mix a few bushels of chalk and dry earth, spread it over the floor, and pay a paviour's labourer a trifle to hammer it level with his rammer. The Book of Household Management The ancient paviour said, his eldest son was a captain in the East Indies; and the youngest had lately inlisted as a soldier, in hopes of prospering like his brother. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker |
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