deaving

Overhead a shutter was slammed back, and an angry voice bade him stop "deaving folk."

Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902

` ` And what signifies deaving us wi 'tales about our fathers,' 'retorted the young man, ` ` if we're to sit and see our friends' houses burnt ower their heads, and no put out hand to revenge them?

The Black Dwarf 1898

We could hear the bleating of the sheep and the lowing of the cows in the long lane down by the Holm and the bells of the old Tron deaving our ears by striking the hour of eight.

Nancy Stair A Novel Elinor Macartney Lane 1886

` ` Gae hame, gudewife, '' quoth the farmer aforesaid. ` ` it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here. ''

The Waverley 1877

'Gae hame, gudewife,' quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here.'

Waverley — Complete Walter Scott 1801

'Gae hame, gudewife,' quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here.'

Waverley — Volume 1 Walter Scott 1801

"Indeed," said she, "I think one of the most remarkable is, that when I entered the world there was one Knox deaving us a 'with his clavers, and now that I am going out of it, there is one Clavers deaving us with his knocks."

The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford Walter Scott 1801

'Gae hame, gudewife,' quoth the farmer aforesaid; 'it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here.'

Waverley Walter Scott 1801

'Gae hame, gudewife, quoth the farmer aforesaid;' it wad better set you to be nursing the gudeman's bairns than to be deaving us here. '

Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since Walter Scott 1801

Knox deaving us a’ wi’ his clavers, and now I am ganging out, there is ane Claver’se deaving us a’ wi’ his knocks.”

Old Mortality 2004