claver

How To Use claver In A Sentence

• Some of the rooms depicted within Claverton Manor are considerably older than the house itself.
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The craik amang the claver hay, [corn-crake, clover] Robert Burns How To Know Him
• An 'ye claver sic' nonsense when ye're daft, what would ye say when ye're sane? Lords of the North
• 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
• He sat rolled up in the corner like a hedgehog, all through the clishmaclaver. Dragonfly in Amber