There is a tradition that during an outbreak of the plague in London, Craven took horse and galloped westward till he reached a lonely farmhouse on the Berkshire downs, and there built Ashdown House.
Thereat the chieftain, mad with warlike rage As is a snake with heat at noonday, raves; And on the prudent seer Oeclides heaps Taunts of faint-heartedness and craven fear.
Gordale Scar=--a magnificent limestone ravine near Malham Cove, in Yorkshire, on the line of the great Craven Fault.
The nearest town is Skipton-in-Craven and the nearest station Bell Busk, but Settle is very little farther and will generally be found the most convenient starting-point.
The Prince's equipage deposited Silas at the Craven Hotel in Craven Street, and immediately drove away, leaving him alone with the servants of the inn.
Mr. Craven ordered Mrs. Medlock to get 'em in London.
Everybody as knowed about Mester Craven knowed there was a little lad as was like to be a cripple, an' they knowed Mester Craven didn't like him to be talked about.
Craven started in actual alarm and Mrs. Medlock almost fell back because he had accidentally bumped against her.
As he sat gazing into the clear running of the water, Archibald Craven gradually felt his mind and body both grow quiet, as quiet as the valley itself.
Craven had never made such a short stay after a "tantrum"; usually he was obliged to remain a very long time and do a great many things.
Mr. Craven had extended them just in time to save him from falling as a result of his unseeing dash against him, and when he held him away to look at him in amazement at his being there he truly gasped for breath.
Captain Lennox and his wife died of the cholera," Mr. Craven had said in his short, cold way.
The man held a salver with some letters on it and he waited quietly until Mr. Craven took them.
It was the strangest thing he had ever heard, Archibald Craven thought, as it was poured forth in headlong boy fashion.
Craven said he couldn't be responsible for forcing him.
Craven held his chin in his hand and thought him over.
He said no more about writing to Mr. Craven and when he saw the nurse he privately warned her that such a possibility must not be mentioned to the patient.
She'd never spoke to him before, but Mrs. Craven had been to our cottage two or three times.
Craven is coming to see you at once, if you'll allow him.
It was difficult for him to understand how one could yield to a fit of craven fear; but there was a fact which made Gladwyne's transgression still blacker.
Clarence was, of course, aware of this, and it hurt to remember that in deserting his cousin he had been prompted chiefly by craven fear.
But angered by my sudden descent which had come near to knocking her down, she whispered in a rage that I was either the biggest fool or the poorest craven in the world.
In the meantime the family had moved from the stable to a house in Craven Street, City Road, half a mile farther north.
When this successful leader heard of the craven flight of Gov.
The Traun his brow is bent in pride-- He brooks nocraven on his side-- Would ye be fettered then?
I scorn the coward and craven race Who dwell around my mighty base, For they leave the lessons I grandly gave And bend to the yoke of the crouching slave.
One begins in Craven Reach and it is as if one were in the heart of old England.
Colonel Bateman had commanded the headquarters detachment of the Craven territorials for many years before the war and had already won golden opinions in France both as company commander and as second-in-command.
From Hulluch the ⅙th Battalion moved at once into quite a new type of country, for in the middle of July the Craven men found themselves encamped on the sandy dunes east of Dunkirk on the Channel Coast.
One of the outstanding features of recruiting in Craven in the early days of the war was a unique and entirely successful effort by Mr. H.
Clayton, editor of the “Craven Herald,” who has had the valued assistance of Mr. Brayshaw and his extensive local knowledge of the Craven district.
Aged 26 years (Formerly on the reporting staff of the “Craven Herald.
Did you tackle that trouble that came your way With a resolute heart and cheerful, Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful?
We desire the peace which comes as of right to the just man armed; not the peace granted on terms of ignominy to the craven and the weakling.
The peace of tyrannous terror, the peace of craven weakness, the peace of injustice, all these should be shunned as we shun unrighteous war.
A thoroughbred, even though bad, has more of our respect than the craven who cleaves to the proprieties solely from fear to violate them.
Or hide your face from the light of day With a craven soul and fearful?
Now, Mr Craven was somewhat corpulent—there was no mistake about that, and marching about under a hot sun was clearly not accomplished without great exertion and copious perspiration.
Mr Craven was known among us as a very genial and sociable officer, and he enjoyed the respect and esteem of those under him.
Beg, or I will thrust thy craven face against the floor.
He had tried to place the blame on her, like the craven he was, to shield another woman.
She said she wanted me returned to Hanley alive; cravencoward that I was, still I did not deserve death.
If there is any way to fool Hanley, that craven American has no doubt thought it out.
Here are four horses and four suits of armour for us, and but one knight to deal with; a craven too, by the way he hangs his head.
This plebs mass has becomecraven through the habit of slavery that weighs it down since the Frankish conquest.
Tis true, we are as craven as you are ferocious, but if our cravenness explains your criminal conduct, it does not excuse it.
Before you arrived at the gate of the city," Fergan said to him, "you surely expected to meet here with a craven obedience to the orders of the King and the bishop.
He knew that if he was so inconceivably craven as to remain silent, his self-respect would never recover from the blow.
And he was ashamed: ashamed of his own dominance and of his father's craven submissiveness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "craven" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
