laving
Example Sentences
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They had sacked Urumtsi, and were laving close siege to Manas.
From The Life of Yakoob Beg Athalik Ghazi, and Badaulet; Ameer of Kashgar by Demetrius Charles Boulger
These were quiet days in the little white house, with only the narrow quay underneath, and the changing groups of washerwomen, bare-armed, lilac-bloused, laving and lifting in the tremulous heat-haze of the afternoon.
From The White Plumes of Navarre A Romance of the Wars of Religion by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Kneeling there, stripped to the waist, he began laving his chest and shoulders and dipping his face deep into the cold water.
From The Roof Tree by Lee F. Conrey
It is evident that this pike was laving up against a rainy day.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Gracious glory—no! why he was laving this for good and all this night.
From The Macdermots of Ballycloran by Anthony Trollope
