Lexicographical Neighbors of Cavels
Literary usage of Cavels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statistical Account of Scotland: Drawn Up from the Communications of the by John Sinclair (1797)
"It often happens, indeed, that both filh in different places at the fame time.
Very curious regulations are adopted by both cavels for fixing the periods at ..."
2. English and Scottish Ballads by Francis James Child (1866)
"... cavels us amang, The cavel fell on me ; O we ... cavels us amang, The cavel
fell on me, And it's for mine offence I must die. ..."
3. Travels Through Germany: Containing Observations on Customs, Manners by Thomas Nugent (1768)
"... or autumn into the cavels that are cleared. Thus by grubbing up the ground
... it is of great importance how the cavels are laid out in places where the ..."
4. Ancient Scottish Ballads: Recovered from Tradition and Never Before by George Ritchie Kinloch (1827)
"... cavels us amang, The cavel fell on me: And it's for mine offence I must die.
1 had a loving mother, Who of me took gret care, She wad hae gien the gold ..."
5. Ancient Danish Ballads by Richard Chandler Alexander Prior (1860)
"O we cast cavels us among, The iavel fell on me; O we cast cavels us among, The
cavel fell on me. The Swedish ballads of 'Sir Peter's Voyage' Arw. II. ..."
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