Crossword clues for javel
javel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Javel \Jav"el\, n.
A vagabond. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Wiktionary
n. (context obsolete English) A vagabond.
Wikipedia
Javel may refer to:
- Javel, France, a former commune, now a neighborhood of the 15th arrondissement of Paris
- Javel – André Citroën (Paris Métro)
- Gare de Javel, train station in the 15th arrondissement of Paris, by the Pont Mirabeau
Usage examples of "javel".
The fishing smack commanded by Captain Javel, on entering the harbor was wrecked on the rocks of the harbor breakwater.
It suddenly touched bottom, but a big wave made the boat heel, and Javel, junior, who was in the bows directing the lowering of the net, staggered, and his arm was caught in the rope which the shock had slipped from the pulley for an instant.
Towards evening Javel, junior, called his comrades and showed them some black spots, all the horrible tokens of mortification in the portion of the arm below the broken bones.
When the day broke, Javel, junior, took the severed portion of his arm and examined it for a long time.
But Javel would not go to bed until he got back his severed arm, and he returned at once to the dock to look for the barrel which he had marked with a cross.
Lucas had another job on hand, a burglary in a warehouse on the Quai de Javel, and was in a hurry to get there.
Maigret decided to take Lucas with him, but found his office empty and remembered about the Javel affair.
As for Lucas, he was left alone to clear up the Javel burglary, and was thoroughly disgruntled about it.
Lucas with him, but found his office empty and remembered about the Javel affair.
Lucas, he was left alone to clear up the Javel burglary, and was thoroughly disgruntled about it.
On the outskirts of Paris, at Vanves, Charenton and Javel, were a number of workshops all devoted to developing chemical processes helpful to industry: vitriols for bleaches, lead-whites for paints, inflammable gases.
Jack closed the book he was read Ing and walked to the table where the two men threw insults like javel ins.
Show coffins, winding sheets, goodbuy bierchepes, cinerary urns, liealoud blasses, snuffchests, poteentubbs, lacrimal vases, hoodendoses, reekwaterbeckers, breakmiddles, zootzaks for eatlust, including upyourhealthing rookworst and meathewersoftened forkenpootsies and for that matter, javel also, any kind of inhumationary bric au brac for the adornment of his glasstone honophreum, would, met these trein of konditiens, naturally follow, halas, in the ordinary course, enabling that roundtheworlder wandelingswight, did suches pass him, to live all safeathomely the presenile days of his life of opulence, ancient ere .