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Example sentences for "shaver"

Lexicographically close words:
shave; shaved; shaveling; shavelings; shaven; shavers; shaves; shaving; shavings; shawl
  1. Why, I dessay if yew yewrself wasn't here this here young shaver of an officer would have a try at it hisself.

  2. There hain't a man of ye has the pluck of this little shaver that beats the drum.

  3. Little Shaver knows all about it: I 've told him.

  4. Martin was proudly leading Fleet and Little Shaver up and down in front of the house.

  5. Little Shaver whinnied, and with a downward thrust and twist of his head tried to get it under Chi's arm.

  6. Meantime Mike and the little shaver were leading society by the nose, as the tent lawyer tritely put it.

  7. I never did see any little shaver that had so much kite-flyin' in his head as you.

  8. It sells, my boy, because you are a little shaver and appear to be smart, and also because your rhymes refer to events in which everybody is interested.

  9. It cut the little shaver to the quick, didn't it?

  10. It hurt the little shaver to tell him there was no future in him; I could see it did.

  11. Well, it might do that with a little shaver like you.

  12. This young shaver was going to nick my bike.

  13. When I was just a little shaver I was told I b'longed to the family of the late Colonel Edward Bookter of upper Fairfield County.

  14. When I was a shaver I carried water to de rooms and polished shoes fer all de white folks in de house.

  15. The zamindars delivered over the guarding of the treasure to the professional barbers, who became a more important person in this capacity than in his original office of shaver in ordinary to His Highness.

  16. In the early hours of the morning, he may be seen going his rounds to his employers' houses in his capacity of shaver and hair-cutter.

  17. Till he is discovered the shaver wins no secure happiness, and in the search for the barber who has an elective affinity for the shaver may be found material for an operetta or an epic.

  18. The shaver figures as a sort of Alastor, seeking the ideal setter of razors, as Shelley's Alastor sought ideal beauty in the neighbourhood of Afghanistan, and in the very home of the Central Asian Question.

  19. Possibly the shaver is born, not made, like the poet; it is sure that many men are born with an inability to shave.

  20. The skin is shifted so as to bring all parts under the action of the knife, the shaver frequently passing a fold between his finger to test the progress of his work.

  21. The evening of the day that the poor little shaver was laid underground, Mrs. Hod entered the tenement to console the bereaved girl.

  22. Even as a little shaver at school he couldn't be made to understand the 'why' of a school-boy's code.

  23. Are you sure, Shaver Quackinboss, that you are ever to have such another piece of luck as this?

  24. I ain't christened Shaver if you don't fill your hat with Yankee dollars in every second town of the Union.

  25. Even as a little shaver Luke had realized that.

  26. Charley was always a favorite of his, since the day when he was a little shaver and an acolyte on the altar.

  27. But the baronet got married in his old days, and there is a little shaver in petticoats to cut Master George out.

  28. Barnum in examination under supplementary proceedings at the instance of some note-shaver who had bought a clock note at a discount of thirty-six per cent.

  29. To a shaver of this class, cost is immaterial.

  30. But between inventions in safety-razors, the extraordinary-safety shaver is likely to revert to first principles and the naked steel of his ancestors.

  31. The poor shaver was so disconcerted at this exclamation, which both he and I imagined proceeded from the mouth of a giant, that he descended with great velocity and a countenance as white as paper.

  32. He actually engaged him on this pretence, and painted his good fortune in such colours that the poor shaver was quite beside himself with joy.

  33. Little Shaver was so pleased by this friendly demonstration that he threw up his arms in an effort to embrace The Hopper.

  34. There was nothing in The Hopper's known past to justify any expectation that he could quiet a crying baby, and yet Shaver with a child's unerring instinct realized that The Hopper meant to be kind.

  35. It was not in human nature for the parents of a youngster so handsome and in every way so delightful as Shaver to permit him to be stolen from under their very noses without making an outcry.

  36. The Hopper drew a chair to the table to be within reach of Shaver and related succinctly his day's adventures.

  37. While this was in progress, Shaver suddenly opened his eyes wide and raising one foot until it approximated the perpendicular, reached for it with his chubby hands.

  38. The Hopper's wits were alert as he bore Shaver homeward.

  39. I ain't goin' to turn Shaver over to no cops.

  40. But Shaver was entitled to all the joys of Christmas, and The Hopper had no desire to deprive him of them.

  41. Even Shaver was startled by the violence of the conversation in progress within, and clutched tightly a fold of The Hopper's trousers.

  42. Shaver was highly pleased with his Christmas stockings, but his pleasure was nothing to that of The Hopper, Mary, and Humpy, as they stood about the bed and watched him.

  43. That little shaver ain't of the right build to knock around in rough water with the likes of you, an' there's too much danger in it for him.

  44. It can't take such a terrible amount of money to keep this little shaver and his toy dog.

  45. Now there's no good reason why that little shaver should see all the dismal work, for it would only bring all the sorrow back into his heart.

  46. I think on these long winter days it will be mighty pleasant to have a little shaver like him toddling round here with his dog, and now the spring is so near at hand he wouldn't get much of a whack at schoolin' before vacation-time comes.

  47. This little shaver has been out long enough.

  48. I was thinkin' of that little shaver up-stairs.

  49. You put me in mind of a little shaver who spent a good many hours in my lap an' it kind'er makes me feel better to put my arms around you.

  50. I'd rather have the little shaver with me for a year to come, than all the gold an' letters the Board can send!

  51. I allers allowed that I'd never rest easy with one under foot, an' yet this little shaver does his share of the work like a man.

  52. I hope there ain't any one here so mean an' bad-minded as to question any statement that little shaver has made!

  53. Are you crazy enough to drag that 'ere little shaver off in a boat while the weather is like this?

  54. Sonny could take care of the light all by himself, if so be there was any need for it; he's the quickest little shaver to learn I ever saw.

  55. It stands to reason the little shaver needs somethin' in his stomach, an' I'll fix up a mess right away.

  56. Shaver and I thought it would be a good chance for us to cross the river and go to Lutheran preaching Xmas eve.

  57. Joe Shaver was sick and we put him in a tent near by and John Q.

  58. Shaver and I were side by side as we had been for three days firing at the enemy, when another bullet came through the fortifications and struck Newt.


  59. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shaver" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.