Citations:Chevvie

English citations of Chevvie

Noun: "alternative spelling of Chevy"

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• 1942, Robert St. John, From the Land of the Silent People, page 83:

  Then the Chevvie, which Hill was driving, had a flat tire on a road so deep with mud we couldn’t use the jack.

• 1953, Peter Brackett, "The Pay-off", in Hit Parade of Short Stories (1959 printing), page 119:

  Then I talked with Dad, suggesting that we trade in the Chevvie.

• 1954, Rosemary Taylor, Ghost Town Bonanza, page 99:

  To be really sure that Sally would have transportation in an emergency, Rollo drove the Chevvie across the new piece of road and parked it in a wide place further down.

• 1959, Mordecai Richler, The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1995 printing), page 289:

  It had taken them nearly ninety minutes to free Virgil from the cab of the Chevvie.

• 1962, Hortense Calisher, Tale of the Mirror, page 44:

  We accepted without particular consideration, partly out of a reawakened interest in her and what she would be like at home with the Senator, and partly because it was a place to go with the Chevvie — and no sense of the stringency of time had led us as yet to a carping evaluation of the people with whom we spent it.

• 1978, Anton Myrer, The Last Convertible, page 449:

  I went to the foot of the stairs and called: "Nancy! I'm taking the Chevvie, I'm driving Russ over to Boston."

• 1983, Charlotte MacLeod, Something the Cat Dragged In, page 61:

  Shandy refrained from pointing out that it would be easy enough for the Chevvie to cut across the lawn, […]

• 1990, David Goddis, The Burglar, page 29:

  ‘Get new cards printed and take care of the Chevvie. Get it done fast. Get new upholstery, now, new paint job, melt the licence plates. Everything.’

• 1996, Margaret Geddes, Remembering Weary: Sir Edward Dunlop – As Recalled by Those Whose Lives He Touched, page 76:

  I got the groundsheet out, spread it on the deck and went off to sleep alongside the Chevvie.

• 2000, Arthur Maimane, Hate No More, page 154:

  Philip could’ve laughed at him, right in the face beside him in the crowded front seat of the Chevvie.

• 2006, Zoë Wicomb, Playing in the Light, page 193:

  In the very backseat of the Chevvie where Marion and Annie bounced about with the dog on Saturday-afternoon drives to Milnerton […]