Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevying
Literary usage of Chevying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. God's Man: A Novel by George Bronson-Howard, Bobbs-Merrill Company, Braunworth & Co (1915)
"... and his chevying before; and, in a way, it would have ... for that chevying
was the first episode in the life of Arnold L'Hommedieu that seriously ..."
2. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"This was made imre ciri.ius by some of the town dogs catching sight of the objects,
and taking to chevying them along the santi, until a sort of ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) (1900)
"... living on their gardens and chevying the men from place to place. In order
that the police should have no shelter, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1887)
"As the baffled monster lay bleeding on the turf, he asked him, " why were you
chevying my Cat ? " " It is rather original," said the Miller's son ; " I have ..."
5. The Gentleman's Magazine (1892)
"Once he got stuck hard and fast on a grass slope while chevying his • goats.
His coat blew off, and someone who saw it thought it was a great bird. ..."
6. The Nineteenth Century (1889)
"It is not likely that they either expected or even hoped it, any more than the
Frenchman was really anxious to kill the woodcock, the constant chevying of ..."
7. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1856)
"... but the mob had become somewhat indifferent to the eloquence of the stump
orators, and indulged themselves by hunting or “chevying” any remarkable ..."
8. The Scottish Historical Review by Company of Scottish History (1906)
"There exists, in the possession of Mr. Fraser Tytler, a little enamelled jewel
representing a boy chevying a mouse, and this is said to have been given to ..."
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