clavering

"Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat?"

Watershed 2010

"Is that why you're tasking me with all these daft questions - because that clavering auld clype Owen Williams has told you that Billy Cumming put his hand on mine once or twice at the baccarat?"

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

—Godsake, woman, let me away; —there’s saxpence t’ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o’ clavering about thae auld warld stories.

Chapter XXII 1917

See ye neither meddle nor mak, nor gie nae offence wi 'that clavering tongue o' yours, but keep a calm sough, and let ilka cock fight his ain battle. ''

Rob Roy 1887

But I hae nae time for clavering about him e'en now, because we maun look into your father's concerns wi 'all speed.' '

Rob Roy 1887

But I keep on clavering about my own concerns, while you are in doubt and difficulties about yours.

Mr. Hogarth's Will Catherine Helen Spence 1867

Didna I see thee, Elleen, clavering with that muckle Archduke that nane can talk with? '

Two Penniless Princesses Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

` ` I pelieve, 'said Duncan, ` ` it was as harmonious as could pe expected, when the tae half o the bodies were clavering

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

Here are ye clavering about the Duke of Argyle, and this man Martingale gaun to break on our hands, and lose us gude sixty pounds --- I wonder what duke will pay that, quotha --- I wish the Duke of

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 1822

Godsake, woman, let me away; there's saxpence t 'ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o' clavering about thae auld-warld stories. '

Guy Mannering, Or, the Astrologer — Complete Walter Scott 1801