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Definition of Shivving
1. shiv [v] - See also: shiv
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shivving
Literary usage of Shivving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Specimens of the British Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices and by Thomas Campbell (1844)
"Which all the day in constant battle worn, Unnumber'd shields and corselets had
transfix'J, Against the Persian buckler, shivVing, break>. ..."
2. The Athenian Captive: A Tragedy in Five Acts by Thomas Noon Talfourd (1838)
"... as I lay prone in dust, The broad steel shivVing in my eyes, that strove To
keep their steady gaze, I met his glance, Where pity triumph'd; ..."
3. Poems by William Cowper, John Newton (1818)
"... Stands in the desert, shivVing and forlorn, A wintry figure, like a wither'd
thorn. The shelves are full, all other themes are sped ; Hackney'd and worn ..."
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