"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... your vittles like that for?" inquired the "Bruiser" of Sam Dowse, as that able-bodied seaman sat with his plate in his lap, eyeing it with much disfavour. "That ain't the way to look at your food, after I've been perspiring away all ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... a scheme of purchase, in which Baron Dowse was greatly interested, and I suggested that all holdings under L4 a year should be ejected at Petty Sessions, because it was a great hardship for the tenant of such a holding to have L2, ...
— The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent • S.M. Hussey
... she came, only to do the meanest chores. As to living with a tanner, I am no Brahmin, and believe that a man may not only live with a tanner, but be a tanner, and have all the culture, if not all the learning and the talent, of Simon's guest. Thomas Dowse pointed the way for many who will go much farther upon it ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various |
