bevies

The parks are crowded with amusement seekers, some reading and playing games, some sewing, knitting, playing on musical instruments, dancing, sitting around tables in bevies eating, drinking, and gayly chatting.

Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences 1815-1897 1898

Or some old woman would come with her pails to the spring below, a curious and very old stone well, to which the cattle from the common often rushed down past me in bevies, and stood knee-deep, their mouths making glancing circles in the water as they drank.

John Halifax, Gentleman 1897

I'm talking about what should be one of your magazine's key objectives, which is to get husbands and wives out together in the wilds, or boyfriends and girlfriends, or moms and their kids, or fathers and their kids, and even, yes, beautiful bevies of sportsminded ladies.

Ladies in distress! Rally up boys and girls! 2009

There were more singers and musicians and artist folk, and bevies of young girls with their inevitable followings of young men, while mammas and aunts and chaperons seemed to clutter all the ways of the Big House and to fill

CHAPTER XIX 2010

Hundreds of managers from BYD's 1,200 dealerships patiently waited for over an hour for Buffett to arrive, standing to applaud and snap pictures as he walked in with Wang while bevies of ladies clad in red and gilt gowns stood alongside.

Backer Buffett Visits China Automaker BYD By ELAINE KURTENBACH 2010

I'm talking about what should be one of your magazine's key objectives, which is to get husbands and wives out together in the wilds, or boyfriends and girlfriends, or moms and their kids, or fathers and their kids, and even, yes, beautiful bevies of sportsminded ladies.

Ladies in distress! Rally up boys and girls! 2009

Sage, most of it is, and cheatgrass, but they have a few cottonwoods in a dry creekbed, and a graveyard of abandoned tires Herb is trying to clear, and whole bevies of quail that sometimes sprint across the driveway in the early morning.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

Sage, most of it is, and cheatgrass, but they have a few cottonwoods in a dry creekbed, and a graveyard of abandoned tires Herb is trying to clear, and whole bevies of quail that sometimes sprint across the driveway in the early morning.

Memory Wall Anthony Doerr 2010

However the interstate highway system that transformed American demography, culture and economics emerged in a bygone era of pax-Americana when bountiful amounts of federal money were available to finance road construction and bevies of well-trained and experienced road contractors were on hand to implement the program.

Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010

However the interstate highway system that transformed American demography, culture and economics emerged in a bygone era of pax-Americana when bountiful amounts of federal money were available to finance road construction and bevies of well-trained and experienced road contractors were on hand to implement the program.

Matthew Bergman: The Roads of Africa: Moving Beyond the Tragedy of the Commons Matthew Bergman 2010