What is "levet"

Usage examples of "levet".

As she confided later to Levet, a man she did not usually address, she had been tormented by a dreadful vision in which Samuel wrestled with the Devil.

He fought to be without prejudice but his sympathies lay with Levet rather than with the blind Mrs.

Johnson, and glowered with such lasting severity that Levet fell silent, and shortly after went about his business.

In speaking so fiercely it was Levet he had in mind, who, following a dusky courtship in a coal-hole in Fetter Lane, had shackled himself to a woman later arrested for the picking of pockets.

Thrale, Johnson acknowledged he was not acquainted with the anatomist, but had attended two of his lectures in the company of Levet and found both instructive.

She wrote that Levet had lain on his back for some hours, but, judging from the raucous singing that accompanied his eventual descent of the cellar steps, had returned none the worse for wear.

Frank Barber had gone out to meet one of his sooty friends and only Levet was at the fireside.

Williams was there, and Levet too, the one sitting by the fire in her faded scarlet, the other in the far corner, holding a cup out of reach of the cat perching on his bony knee.

Desmoulins sat down beside Levet, something she would not usually do, but then, she and he were not often present when Samuel entertained visitors.

There was not sufficient room at the table for Levet, who ate in the corner, fighting the cat from his plate.

Wild animals: something like a levet that swims, long and sleek, and levets, of course.

He was at once the companion of the brilliant Colonel Forrester of the Guards, who wrote The Polite Philosopher, and of the aukward and uncouth Robert Levet.