Instead of tucking the rats out of the bed, the maid had tucked one in, and Miss Cowe on waking beheld it sitting on her pillow.
When they be maried the man and the woman come to the water side, and there is an olde man which they call a Bramane, that is a priest, a cowe and a calfe, or a cowe with calfe.
Because they canne flatter and lye, Makynge beleve the cowe is wode.
This is a pickthanke knaue, that would make his Maister beleue that the Cowe is woode.
Gin ye be for lang kail, Cowe the nettle, stoo the nettle: Gin ye be for lang kail, Cowe the nettle early.
And first accordingly the few catle which they had were devided, which arose to this proportion; a cowe to 6.
Allerton, as for instance a cowe in y^e hands of one cost 25^li.
And this was not a vaine feare; for they fell indeede before they came to a conclusion, and that so souddanly, as a cowe that but a month before was worth 20^li.
This was held principally for the purpose of rehearsing what is called a ball-play dance; the inhabitants of Cowe having received a challenge to play against those of another town.
Take Ayrenn and wryng hem thurgh a styunour and do þerto cowemylke with butter and safroun and salt and seeþ it wel.
As Burns expresses it, they did their best to stir up their flocks to Join their counsel and their skills To cowe the lairds, An' get the brutes the power themsels To chuse their herds.
All Burns's instincts would naturally have been on the side of those who wished to resist patronage and "to cowe the lairds," had not this his natural tendency been counteracted by a stronger bias drawing him in an opposite direction.
Ye cowe a'," which we subjoin, amply entitles him to a place among the minstrels of his country.
But wilfu' folk maun hae their way--oh, ye cowe a'!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cowe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
