Meanings of aves in English

The corvidæ, our parallel in aves, consist of several distinct genera and sub-genera.

I can foresee that thou wilt bear nought else beside aves.

Vous aves de la corde de pendu, m'sieu-yes ,youare a lucky dog!

She felt for her beads, and said aves of praise.

But I had not heard that it was a Benedictine custom to rehearse aves in tree-tops.

I called on Don Emmanuel de Roda, who was a man of letters, a 'rara aves' in Spain.

In the line of the aves, Mr. Swainson finds these to be nine, the species pica, for example, being thus indicated:-

That unnatural light above, and this deep tranquillity below, which surpasses an ordinary cairn have already driven me to my aves.

Are there not thousands of wives who tell their beads, and repeat their aves, while their husbands think of anything but heaven?

It is much the same here, caro Vito Viti, though our mariners do burn so many lamps and offer up so many aves.

That was the worst, and Maudelain began to fear he was a little mad because even this he had resisted with many aves.

He approached and regarded it; then began mumbling aves and paters, running them together as he had not done during the visitation and storm.

A great ash-coloured butcher-bird was shot last winter in Tisted- park, and a red-backed butcher-bird at Selborne: they are rarae aves in this country.

She is a Catholic; for mine own eyes have seen her in the confessional, and mine own ears have listened to her aves and paters.

As if to blast his last hope, Drusus hastily bowed away the salves and aves of the two clients, turned, and went into the villa.

All her orisons and aves, which she failed not to murmur each morning and evening, were reminders of the earnest faith of her poor child.