Waverley

[ wey-ver-lee ]

noun
  1. a city in New South Wales, SE Australia, near Sydney.

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How to use Waverley in a sentence

  • The Lay, a rhyming romance; Waverley an historical novel; what, it may be asked, is so very remarkable about their origins?

    Sir Walter Scott | William Paton Ker
  • I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.

    Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters | William Austen-Leigh and Richard Arthur Austen-Leigh
  • I don't think Babie and Sydney realise any one being in love nearer our own times than 'Waverley' at the very latest.

    Magnum Bonum | Charlotte M. Yonge
  • What book of fiction of the present century can you read twice, with the exception of ‘Waverley’ and ‘Rob Roy?’

    The Romany Rye | George Borrow
  • Under what disadvantages does the historical play appear after the historical novels of the Author of Waverley!