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Definition of Shavelings
1. shaveling [n] - See also: shaveling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shavelings
Literary usage of Shavelings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Every Day in the Year: A Poetical Epitome of the World's History by James Lauren Ford, Mary K. Ford (1902)
"... the shavelings of Rome, To the serpent of Florence, the vulture of Spain, To
the pride of Anjou, and the guile of Lorraine. Farewell to thy mountains, ..."
2. The Bibliographical and Retrospective Miscellany: Containing Notices Of, and by John Wilson (1830)
"Lawes and Ordinances forced to bee agreed upon by the Pope and his shavelings,
for the disposing of his adherents, and Popish Rites he sent into England. 1. ..."
3. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And would you, Sir Prelate, have Harold make sport For the cowls and the shavelings
that herd in thy court ? Say what shall he do ? ..."
4. The Works of Thomas Carlyle: (complete). by Thomas Carlyle (1897)
"She hardly returned, when fever and shavelings were both swept into the background.
Pompadour too, when Damiens wounded Royalty " slightly, under the fifth ..."
5. Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century by Henry Osborn Taylor (1920)
"But the " pope's shavelings" still blaspheme Holy Writ, ... For why? his body (which
be the bishops and other shavelings) doth not only remain, ..."
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