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His kneading tub and his pavin are the two misteries of his occupation and he is a filcher by his trade, but the miller is before him.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

"Wal, Joel, while yer 'baout it," remarked Silas Barnes, "why don't yer suggest a brick block er two, an 'pavin' stones in the square an 'a few other things such as I told ye I seen in Boston.

Randy and Her Friends Amy Brooks

Why, the airth seems topsides down, an 'brickbats an' pavin 'stones air a reg'ler caution to it! "

The Island Treasure 1887

Their platform may need a lot more pavin 'before bein' put to pounce from.

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Geierstein, they looked but like another girl and bachelor, only that Anne is so very handsome; but now they move in time and manner as if they were leading a stately pavin, and behave to each other with as much formal respect as if he were Landamman of the Unterwalden, and she the first lady of Berne.

Anne of Geierstein 2008

"All right," says I; "but if I was you I'd trail down some pavin 'job before the paper inner soles wore clean through."

Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe Sewell Ford 1907

They start out down th 'street, loaded up with obscenthe an' cigareets, pavin 'blocks an' walkin 'sthicks an' shtove lids in their hands, cryin ', 'A base Cap

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

He's th 'sort iv a man that we used to heave pavin' shtones at whin he come out iv th 'stage dure iv th'

Mr. Dooley's Philosophy Finley Peter Dunne 1901

'Hivins an' earth, he's batin 'that poor Spanyard with a pavin' block.

Mr. Dooley in Peace and in War Finley Peter Dunne 1901

The only Pavan mentioned by Shakespeare is the _Passy-measures pavin_, otherwise known as Passing-measures-pavin, or Passameso, or _Pass e mezzo_, which last is the earliest form of the word.

Shakespeare and Music With Illustrations from the Music of the 16th and 17th centuries 1900