Meaning of cliver | Babel Free

Definitions

clever

dialectal, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“There's ways a cliver agent can run⟳ up a reckoning, and when you want⟳ Mireside I'll have⟳ to gan." "”

“"Ah, but it's a cliver trick⟳, no doubt⟳ of it."”

“For I've often a deal⟳ inside me as'll never come⟳ out; and for what you talk⟳ o' your folks in your old country niver saying prayers by heart nor saying 'em out of a book, they must be wonderful cliver; for if I didn't know⟳ "Our Father", and little bits o' good words as I can carry⟳ out o' church wi' me, I might down o' my knees every night, but nothing could I say⟳."”

“Oh, they be cliver creturs, and they'll do what they likes with old Nick, when they gets there, for 'tis the old gentlemen they cozens the best; and then," continued the Corporal, waxing more and more loquacious, for his appetite in talking grew with that it fed on,--"then there be another set⟳ o' queer folks you'll see⟳ in Lunnon, Sir, that is, if you falls in with 'em,--hang⟳ all together, quite in a clink.”

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