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"Chevy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he loves it, though he never did sing or play a note. That he hath ever endeavoured in the late King's time, and in this, to introduce good musique, but he never could do it, there never having been any musique here better than ballads. Nay, says, "Hermitt poore" and "Chevy Chese" ...
— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys
... quotation Margaret looked suddenly up, with inquiring wonder in her eyes. How in the world had they got from cog-wheels to Chevy Chace? ...
— North and South • Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
... "You are going back to an excellent establishment, where you will enjoy all the comforts of home—I can specially recommend the stickjaw; look out for it on Tuesdays and Fridays. You will once more take part in the games and lessons of happy boyhood. (Did you ever play 'chevy' when you were a boy before? You'll enjoy chevy.) And you will find your companions easy enough to get on with, if you don't go giving yourself airs; they won't stand airs. Now good-bye, ...
— Vice Versa - or A Lesson to Fathers • F. Anstey |
Words linked to "Chevy" : devil, irritate, nettle, goad, bedevil, nark, dun, needle, bother, crucify, get at, rag, chafe, get to, annoy, rile, vex, provoke, haze, frustrate, gravel, torment |
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