The ancient paviour said, his eldest son was a captain in the East Indies; and the youngest had lately inlisted as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Expedition of Humphry Clinker] Reference

The intervals are filled up by a paviour, who, to every stroke of his rammer, adds a loud, distinct, and echoing, Haugh!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency] Reference

The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car – man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand – boy his parcels; the school – boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

Chihun thumped Moti Guj's bald head as a paviour thumps a kerbstone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life's Handicap] Reference

A paviour, of the name of Obrien, assured me in 1750, that he only meant to sleep one night in Birmingham, in his way from London to Dublin.    From Wordnik.com.  [An History of Birmingham (1783)] Reference

They were "maidens" among the paviour folk, and determined not to give up this honourable appellation, and let themselves be miscalled rammers.    From Wordnik.com.  [What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales] Reference

A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference

As we proceeded, the country changed to extensive plains and undulations of stones and gravel, washed perfectly level by water, and with the stones as even in size and as regularly laid as if they had been picked out and laid by a paviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference

The "paviour of ways" was immediately put under arrest, and a marine, with a drawn bayonet, placed at his cabin door, and the captain had to repair damages, vowing the most implacable vengeance for having been shoved into his own hog-trough.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rattlin the Reefer] Reference

The tradesman leaves his counter, and the carman his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand-boy his parcels; the schoolboy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

The tradesman leaves his counter, and the car-man his waggon; the butcher throws down his tray; the baker his basket; the milkman his pail; the errand-boy his parcels; the school-boy his marbles; the paviour his pickaxe; the child his battledore.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oliver Twist] Reference

He is so avaricious, that I believe, if you asked for a fish, he would think it even extravagance to give you a stone: in these bad times, stones may come to be dear, and if he loses his place and his lawsuit, who knows but he may be reduced to turn paviour?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1] Reference

Nocelettres and the Poe’s Toffee’s Directory in his pisness), the best begrudged man in Belgradia who doth not belease to our paviour) to my nonesuch, that highest personage at moments holding down the throne.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnegans Wake] Reference

Smashed up his family with a beetle — a paviour he was by profession, and that’s how he came to have a beetle in his house — pounded ’em to a jelly, he did, his wife and five little children, and went off and drownded himself in the Regent’s Canal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Unpleasantness At The Belladonna Club]

The Rev.Mr. M ” ” of Bathgate came up to a street-paviour one day, and addressed him, “Eh, John, what's this you're at?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character]

Who is no paviour, nor admits a barge.    From Wordnik.com.  [Don Juan] Reference

He is the paviour of the high-street of Hades.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Infernal Marriage] Reference

A paviour lifting and bringing down his rammer) of the monster.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century] Reference

A pump to a thirsty paviour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches — Volume 04] Reference