shaveling

And by their slaughter rid the earth of every shaveling wight.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Our chaplain attempted to teach me to write,” he said, “but all my letters were formed like spear-heads and sword-blades, and so the old shaveling gave up the task.”

Ivanhoe 2004

Art thou speaking ill of women, cried Panurge, thou mangy scoundrel, thou sorry, noddy-peaked shaveling monk?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Art thou speaking ill of women, cried Panurge, thou mangy scoundrel, thou sorry, noddy-peaked shaveling monk?

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Gargantua, being come, considered the countenance of the monk, and in what posture he hanged; wherefore he said to Eudemon, You were mistaken in comparing him to Absalom; for Absalom hung by his hair, but this shaveling monk hangeth by the ears.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Gargantua, being come, considered the countenance of the monk, and in what posture he hanged; wherefore he said to Eudemon, You were mistaken in comparing him to Absalom; for Absalom hung by his hair, but this shaveling monk hangeth by the ears.

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

The coble, so called because it was clinker-built in the manner of a Scotch fishing dinghy, very flat-bottomed, glided across the reef without grazing itself and stroked the mere 150 yards across the lagoon to the straight beach, where some of the surviving members of the community stood waiting: six women, one—the oldest—big with child, and five men whose ages, if their faces reflected their years, varied between shaveling young and grizzled old.

Morgan’s Run Colleen McCullough 2000

Obviously well under twenty years of age, the shaveling advocate was of average height and stocky physique, black-haired and swarthy of complexion: not an advocate who would transfix by sheer physical presence, though his face was pleasant enough.

The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990

"Hold there, shaveling!" quoth Sir Pertinax, scowling.

The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915