"Shaveling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on, and we were again on the traces of Robin Hood. Here was Fountain Dale, where he had his encounter with that stalwart shaveling Friar Tuck, who was a kind of saint militant, alternately wearing the casque ...
— Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey • Washington Irving
... who declared "There is no monkery in Al-Islam," and who virtually abolished the priest, had an especial aversion to the shaveling (Ruhban). But the "Gens aeterna in qua nemo nascitur" (Pliny v. 17) managed to appear even in Al-lslam, as Fakirs,, Dervishes, Sufis, etc. ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 2 • Richard F. Burton |
