From now on let it be known that I have accepted Brick as my personal pavior. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Against the Brick] Reference
Parisian pavior was the first inventor of this composition; but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I do not know whether my back-woods friend, or the Parisian pavior, was the first inventor of this composition, but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time] Reference
One additional advantage of using pavior blocks over concrete slabs is that pavior blocks can be used to create a permeable surface so that there is less surface runoff – a big problem as more and more urban areas are covered with pavement. From Wordnik.com. [Matthew Yglesias » Against the Brick] Reference
England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New. From Wordnik.com. [North America] Reference
"Why you see the pavior undertook something above his strength.". From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
The question of the war with England is debated by every native pavior and hodman of New. From Wordnik.com. [North America — Volume 1] Reference
As bad luck would have it, there was trouble near, between a gentleman who had been drinking wine, and a pavior. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
A crowd soon gathered, and despite the indignant cries of the master-pavior, who declared he was never more sane, this son of. From Wordnik.com. [The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield] Reference
As bad luck would have it, there was trouble near, between a gentleman who had been drinking wine, and a pavior who was sober. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
"So it is, and the gentleman was in body a rather weakly man, but, for all that, I say again, the pavior undertook something above his strength.". From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
Jacques and Raoul and Pierre, and every peasant and pavior in Paris will come with boxes and panniers, and each of them will also demand his gold. From Wordnik.com. [The Mississippi Bubble] Reference
The hero of the affair was an Irishman, named Baker, who relieved the monotony of his work as a master pavior by acting Sir John Falstaff and other parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield] Reference
"Cannot an honest pavior perform his work in peace, and get his money for it, and his living by it, without others talking rot about ambition and hopes of fame?". From Wordnik.com. [Fantastic Fables]
M in the centre of the tun; of T. Pavier, in which, appropriately enough, we have a pavior paving the streets of a town, and surrounded by the motto “Thou shalt labour till thou return to dust.”. From Wordnik.com. [Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography] Reference
That belief has in all ages proved the very best pavior to anarchy and despotism, or, to use a more strong and emphatic figure, the most efficacious battering-ram against paper bulwarks and constitutional barriers. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections and reflections : an auto of half a century and more,] Reference
When he was in the streets, overseeing the labours of his men, this pavior-artist usually rehearsed one of his characters, muttering the lines, gesticulating, and almost forgetting that he was without the sacred walls of a theatre. From Wordnik.com. [The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield] Reference
A pavior on the street brings down his rammer at every stroke with an accompanying exclamation expressing effort, and there is no place in Christ's service for dainty people who will not sweat at their task, and are in mortal fear of over-work. From Wordnik.com. [Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes] Reference
Well, the gentleman carried a sword-cane, and presently the pavior was down -- skewered. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
Who is no pavior. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
The pavior chewed on and pushed back. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
It might be a pavior, a pear-monger, or a Papist. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
'Strong as a pavior,' is a proverb. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
On this infernal charge -- imperial, as he called it -- this Vesuvius, this volcano of saltpetre, he threw half-a-dozen balls, or, if he was out of them, a handful of nails; and then he rammed -- rammed -- rammed away, like a pavior. From Wordnik.com. [Le Morvan, [A District of France,] Its Wild Sports, Vineyards and Forests; with Legends, Antiquities, Rural and Local Sketches] Reference
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