veve

• Mrs. S., tho her dropsicle legs had never carred her half so fur before, was eternally on the key veve, as the French say. —  The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush
• Madrid -- was written, _Aqui se veve bino y aguaardieñte_ -- meaning, _Aqui se bebe vino_, etc. —  Spanish Life in Town and Country
• "In Mota the word used for 'mother' is the same that is used for the division [tribe?] _veve_, with a plural sign _ra veve_. —  The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day
• And this was what she sang: "Pah-high-nui-veve, veve, veve, shumeh, veve, veve, veve, shumeh, Pah-high-nui-veve," and so on, repeating these words over and over until Cleeta and Nakin were sound asleep. —  History of California

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