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Definition of Kvelled
1. kvell [v] - See also: kvell
Lexicographical Neighbors of Kvelled
Literary usage of Kvelled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoir of the Rev. Elijah P. Lovejoy: Who was Murdered in Defence of the by Joseph Cammet Lovejoy, Owen Lovejoy, John Quincy Adams (1838)
"... and mail-stages, and steamboats, until it is pretty much entirely kvelled in
the dust, and the waves of vice and sin are accordingly sweeping over us ..."
2. A Manual of Civil Engineering by William John Macquorn Rankine (1883)
"... and the upper ,-urface of the flat stone which forms the top is to be carefully
kvelled. The transit instrument having been set on the pedestal, ..."
3. General Biography: Or, Lives, Critical and Historical, of the Most Eminent by John Aikin, William Enfield, Nicholson, Thomas Morgan, William Johnston (1803)
"... of the blessed Sacrament of the Lord, and of his Testament," 1553 ; and a book
kvelled against libertines, entitled " The Sword of the Spirit," 1550. ..."
4. Time's Telescope for ...; Or, A Complete Guide to the Almanack (1816)
"... -kvelled blow, And the woodcock still bleeds in the glen. Skating, also, is
much practised by young persons. During hard frosts, in the fens of the Isle ..."
5. Gloucestershire Notes and Queries: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine Devoted edited by William Phillimore Watts Phillimore, Sidney Joseph Madge (1887)
"... rammed into the ground as firm as possible) in many places, and kvelled it
almost with the ground, forcing vast quantities of earth a great distance ..."
6. History of the Political and Military Transactions in India During the by Henry Thoby Prinsep (1825)
"Indeed, it ii well known that there was one such article kvelled against Ameer
Khan, and more than suspected, upon many accounts, that another aimed at the ..."
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