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Example sentences for "bowes"

Lexicographically close words:
bower; bowered; bowering; bowerman; bowers; boweth; bowhead; bowie; bowing; bowknot
  1. Mr. Robert Bowes is in his seventy-ninth year.

  2. With him were his wife and three young daughters; for though he had lost Margaret Bowes at the close of his year of triumph 1560, he had four years after married Margaret Stewart, a daughter of his friend Lord Ochiltree.

  3. Sir Martin Bowes being mayor, two fifteens were levied of the citizens toward the charges thereof.

  4. He took Sir Guys head by the hayre, And sticked itt on his bowes end: Thou hast beene a traytor all thy liffe, Which thing must have an ende.

  5. In this foreward goeth very neere the third part of the people of the Carouan, behind whom go alwayes 25 Spachi armed with swords, bowes and arrowes to defend them from thieues.

  6. Every man there berethe 2 bowes or 3, and of arwes gret plentee, and a gret ax.

  7. He took sir Guys head by the hayre, 165 And sticked itt on his bowes end: Thou hast beene a traytor all thy liffe, Which thing must have an ende.

  8. Their intention was to have proceeded on to York, but, altering their minds, they fell upon Barnard's castle, which Sir George Bowes held out against them for eleven days.

  9. Then Sir George Bowes he straitwaye rose, After them some spoyle to make: 110 Those noble erles turn'd backe againe, And aye they vowed that knight to take.

  10. And now wyll we our bowes bend, Into the towne wyll we go, For to delyuer our dere brother, That lyeth in care and wo.

  11. And marke mee nowe; at evensonge, passinge through The cloyster to the chappell, when the fryar Amongst the rest bowes with his wonted duckes, Add rather then deminish from your smiles And wonted favours.

  12. The Indians were expert in those places wher they beganne the battayle, shooting with their bowes and slings, and throwing of dartes.

  13. Then they wente to pitche their campe in a village called Teoacazinco, where was a little Tower and a Temple, and there fortified themselues, and buylte cotages of bowes and strawe.

  14. And when Quahutimoc who stoode on the puppe of the Canoa ready to fighte, sawe those bowes ready bente, and many drawen swordes, he yéelded himselfe, declaryng that he was the king.

  15. Their weapons are bowes and arrowes, slyngs, darts, and lances.

  16. Miss Bowes is thinking the very worst of her, I know.

  17. The two Principals conferred for a moment in whispers, then Miss Bowes announced: "Girls, this affair must be very carefully inquired into.

  18. I wish Miss Bowes had given me Shakespeare," she said.

  19. Mrs. Arnold, with Miss Bowes to look after her, went to the farm to seek fresh garments.

  20. Beginning with the monitresses, Miss Bowes summoned each pupil in turn to her study and subjected her to a very strict catechism.

  21. At the first word Miss Bowes had glided from the room, and the voice died away as the door of her private study closed.

  22. To cater for a whole school up in the wilds is a task from which many Principals would shrink, and Miss Bowes might be forgiven if she had at first demurred at the suggestion.

  23. Miss Bowes and Miss Teddington, the partners who owned the school, had been exceptionally fortunate in their choice of a house.

  24. It was now the turn of V B, and Miss Bowes sent for Ulyth a trifle more hopefully.

  25. Miss Bowes and Miss Teddington always went away for the holidays, and The Woodlands was left in the charge of servants.

  26. She had disliked Miss Bowes for hinting that she was not keeping her word, and had told herself that she was a much-tried and ill-used person.

  27. She drew back, choking with emotion, as Miss Bowes waved her aside.

  28. Bowes had explained how it would be unwise to unwrap Mr. Hay's head and neck then, as a cold wind was blowing, and the horse had caught a slight cold on his voyage.

  29. But Bowes contrived to obtain, on credit, a suit of clothes in place of his tunic of woven grasses.

  30. The coaster had landed them at Otranto, where Bowes promptly engaged a private stable for his master.

  31. Bowes (that being the new name which Mr. Hay had found for his stable-valet) stood on the shore holding his charge with a halter of twisted grasses.

  32. Shortly after dark Bowes picked the lock and crept in.

  33. They reached London at last, and Bowes took a secluded villa, with stable, in St. John's Wood.

  34. Hay was possessed of remarkable aptitude, and, as the £1,000 so fraudulently acquired by Bowes was fast running out, it became necessary to cast about for employment.

  35. Bowes could not understand a word; but signs did just as well.

  36. So Bowes fetched out Mr. Hay, mounted him, and caracoled him all over the place where a horse could manage to go; and presently he caught the eye of the gentleman-jockey.

  37. Bowes had picked up a considerable smattering of English from his master, you see.

  38. Bowes explained that he wasn't for sale; that, in fact, he was half sold already to an American millionaire.

  39. Poor Bowes dragged his bruised remains from among the ruined brickwork.

  40. When he told her about the Bowes hotel, she merely shook her head significantly.

  41. I shall start for Bowes on next Wednesday.

  42. Now Bowes Lodge was some three hundred miles from Hurst Staple, and a journey thither at the present moment would be both expensive and troublesome.

  43. Bowes Lodge he found to be six miles from the village, and when he drove in at the gate he was colder than he had been since he left Hurst Staple.

  44. The house called Bowes Lodge looked damper and greener, more dull, silent, and melancholy, even than it had done when Arthur made his visit.

  45. Arthur also got up, and promised that he would send a letter over from Bowes the first thing on the following morning.

  46. That Appleby road has few sheltered spots, and when about three miles from Bowes he turned off to the right, the country did not improve.

  47. Hardy as he was, that drive in the gig from Bowes did affect him unpleasantly.

  48. Then I shall go to Bowes on Wednesday," said Mrs. Wilkinson.

  49. It will do no harm if I put my bag into the gig," said Arthur; and so, having wisely provided for contingencies, he started for Bowes Lodge.

  50. But a fortnight after the funeral, Arthur received a letter with the postmark of Bowes on it, which, on being opened, was found to be from Lord Stapledean, and which very curtly requested his attendance at Bowes Lodge.

  51. But, no; it was only now twelve o'clock, and she would be at Bowes Lodge a very little after one.

  52. Arthur arrived at the cold, cheerless village of Bowes with a red nose, but with eager hopes.

  53. Now we all know that Bowes is a long way from Staplehurst.

  54. Arthur received all this with brotherly love and the kindest smiles, and thanked God in his heart that his mother had taken that blessed journey to Bowes Lodge.

  55. On the fifth day from the Bowes we reached Yuin.

  56. When down theyr bowes they threw, And foorth theyr bilbowes drewe, And on the French they flew, No man was tardy.

  57. When off Barnegat, New Jersey, he was sighted by the blockading squadron of Captain Philip Bowes Vere Broke, which gave chase.

  58. Among the blockading vessels of the enemy outside of Boston was the Shannon, commanded by Captain Philip Bowes Vere Broke.

  59. Bowes was recalled; Morton, to whom English aid had been promised, was left to take his chances.


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