39 examples of dowses in sentences

"Them hot-headed Kentuckians, y' know, they'd dowse a feller's glim for less 'n that.

Jane Dowse, to whom and from whom, are so many letters, was my late mother, she having intermarried with Peter Dowse, the man so often named, and who led her into acts for which I know she has since been deeply repentant.

Jane Dowse, to whom and from whom, are so many letters, was my late mother, she having intermarried with Peter Dowse, the man so often named, and who led her into acts for which I know she has since been deeply repentant.

The next six or eight communications betrayed nothing distinctly, beyond the fact that the child which formed the subject of the whole correspondence, was to be received by Peter Dowse and his wife, and to be retained as their own offspring, for the consideration of a considerable sum, with an additional engagement to pay an annuity.

It appeared by these letters also, that the child, which was hypocritically alluded to under the name of the 'pet,' had been actually transferred to the keeping of Jane Dowse, and that several years passed, after this arrangement, before the correspondence terminated.

" "Do you remember Dowse, sir, that we got from the wreck?" continued the other, unwilling to give up his gossip so soon.

" David was now compelled to leave the place, for Captain Truck, who perceived that the whole party was getting together again, in consequence of the halt, felt the propriety of dismissing his visiter, of whom, his master, and Dowse, he retained just as much recollection as one retains of a common stage-coach companion after twenty years.

"This is a letter from the woman who appears to have been entrusted with the child, to the man Dowse," said Paul, first glancing his eyes over the page,"it appears to be little else

The names appear in the concluding letters; and had we read the latter through at first, we should earlier have arrived at, the same conclusion, Could we find the man called Dowse, who appears to have instigated the fraud, and who married Mrs. Monday, the whole thing would be explained.

The son, having been brought up in them, not unnaturally tramples and dowses his superiors, using a species of abuse invented in the workshops and on the street corners.

He's audacious enough to come across, is little Boney, if he could dowse Lord Nelson's other eye; but there's no chance for him until then, and well he knows it.' 'How can Lord Nelson know what he is doing?'

He cites as allied words Bohemian dusyti, to choke, to extinguish; Polish dusic, to choke, stifle, quell; and so arrives at the English slang phrase, "dowse the glim."

As we find several other German words in thieves' English, we have little doubt that dowse is nothing more than thu' aus, do (thou) out, which would bring us back to our starting-point.

We asked, too, if Thomas Dowse should be honored with a page and a half, in which his fall from a tree, his rheumatic fever, and the head winds which prevented him from visiting Europe are chronicled,while the eminent French painter, Couture, whose use of the pallet is marked by such striking originality, that it has produced an impression upon the works of a generation of painters, has twelve lines!

3318 LANE (JOHN) TOM TEL-TROTH'S MESSAGE AND HIS PEN'S COMPLAINT, a worke not unpleasant to be read, nor unprofitable to be followed, IN VERSE, dedicated to George Dowse, 4to.

In reply, Serjeant Dowse said: "The argument of the hon. and learned Member, compendiously stated, amounts to thisbecause some judges are old women, therefore all old women are fit to be judges.

D'Orsay, Count Alfred, Dowse, Serjeant, Dublin, Archbishops Plunket, Trench, and Whately, of (see those headings).

DOWSE, MABEL B. SEE THROUGH THE GATE.

Stories by Elizabeth H. Bennett, Catherine Beebe, Julia W. Bingham, Mabel B. Dowse & Margaret Friskey.

By Elizabeth Hart Bennett, Mabel B. Dowse & Mary D. Edmonds.

DOWSE, MABEL B. SEE THROUGH THE GATE.

Stories by Elizabeth H. Bennett, Catherine Beebe, Julia W. Bingham, Mabel B. Dowse & Margaret Friskey.

By Elizabeth Hart Bennett, Mabel B. Dowse & Mary D. Edmonds.

By Elizabeth Hart Bennett, Mabel B. Dowse & Mary D. Edmonds.

By Elizabeth Hart Bennett, Mabel B. Dowse & Mary D. Edmonds.

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