Eur. thrush

Usage examples of mavis.

Mr Cayenne, I got Colin Mavis into the place, where, to the surprise of everybody, he proved a wonderful eident and active lad, and, from less to more, has come at the head of all the clerks, and deep in the confidentials of his employers.

Give her Mavis Freestone kicking some serious musical ass, she thought.

Even if the T-shirt stopped a couple inches above the waist and was covered with red and yellow fringe, it was pretty tame on the Mavis Freestone scale of fashion.

Across from the bed, tacked up for the view she was sure, was a life-sized poster of Mavis Freestone, exploding into a midair leap, arms extended, grin wide and full of fun.

I promised the artist a backstage pass to the next Mavis Freestone concert in the city if he got us something this afternoon.

It was hardly surprising, after this, that Mavis had retreated from the kitchen, leaving her henchwoman mistress of the field.

Her voice sae saft, sae sweet and clear, Afar in yonder bower sae green, The mavis quits her lay to hear A bonnier sang frae lovely Jean.

Also present was a middle-aged woman, Mavis Prine, Senator for Popular Information.

Ten hundred hours Mavis had said, and he was determined that the pads of his tripedal landing gear would touch the turf of the Oval at precisely that time.

She had Mavis backed into a corner and was giving her the finer points on how to leap a Beltane fire.

Later, after two trade union officials had arrived at the Bethnal Green factory, Misses Mavis Percy, the chargehand of the first-floor workshop of machinists and seamstresses, came to see Tommy.

The owners of Flokati were showing Mavis and Walter Bricknell-type behaviour, fluttering about in a nervous anxiety that would be bound to affect the horse if it went on too long.

Mavis was busy at the juice bar whipping up wheat grass smoothies and various concoctions we had dreamed up.

Mavis and Otto Orfizzi, to begin with, hated one another so uncordially, so spitefully, and with such unremitting verbal venom, that no one could be said to be truly safe in their presence, while MuMu and Lotte de Charraiveuneuirauville were both too absorbed in themselves to be much help under the best of circumstances.

Mavis and Otto Orfizzi, to begin with, hated one another so uncordially, so spitefully, and with such unremitting verbal venom, that no one could be said to be truly safe in their presence, while MuMu and Lotte deCharraiveuneuirauville were both too absorbed in themselves to be much help under the best of circumstances.