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Waverley

[ wey-ver-lee ]

/ ˈweɪ vər li /

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noun

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!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 356, June, 1845|Various