Lexicographical Neighbors of Loaving
Literary usage of Loaving
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Voyage of the Beagle by Charles Darwin (1909)
"loaving this village, we crossed over to another, seated on a hill-side at a
little distance. The daughter of a chief, who was still a heathen, ..."
2. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Slut-grate, sb. a grating in the hearth through which the ashes fall, loaving
the cinders for use. It has the name from saving Cinderella the trouble of ..."
3. A Year's Residence, in the United States of America: Treating of the Face of by William Cobbett, Morris Birkbeck (1819)
"It grew soon afterwards ; and, in the end, the cabbages of my dead row were not
only larger, but earlier in loaving, than any of the rest of the plot. 80. ..."
4. The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives by Frank Moore, Edward Everett (1866)
"... and, loaving them, immediately encountered the enemy in strong force, flushed
with a temporary success. A tremendous fire was poured into them, and, ..."
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