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Definition of Revying
1. revie [v] - See also: revie
Lexicographical Neighbors of Revying
Literary usage of Revying
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Emblems Divine and Moral by Francis Quarles, Robert Wilson (1839)
"True rest consists not in the oft revying* Of wordly dross : Earth's miry ...
revying is to stake at play a larger sum of money than another has laid. t ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"This vying and revying upon each other, continued till one of the party lost
courage, and gave up the whole; or obtained, for a stipulated sum, ..."
3. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1872)
"This vying and revying upon each other, continued till one of the party lost
courage, and gave up the whole ; or obtained, for a stipulated sum, ..."
4. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1816)
"... brother Pemberton, and I would willingly hear you what you have to •ay ; but
we must not have vying and revying, for then we shall have no end. Serj. ..."
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