The other monument covers a vault which holds the remains of various members of the Powney family, a name which figured freely in the list of the Company's employees throughout the eighteenth century.
When the cemetery was dismantled, members of the Powney family were still in the Madras service, and it was doubtless in respect for their feelings that the vault was not disturbed.
I said I wad rise early in the mornin' and gaither denty-lions for't oot at the Three-Tree Well, but she wadna let me nor the powney inside the door.
Did I ever tell ye I ance won a powney in a raffle?
But it didna maitter; the powney wasna there in the mornin', and I took guid care no' to ask for't.
I tore my ticket and thrieped it was a mistake, but I couldna get oot o't; they a' kent thepowney was mine.
Elsie's mother, Harriet Thompson, went out to India when she was seventeen to her father, George Powney Thompson.
Harriet Fendall married George Powney Thompson, whose father was at one time secretary to Warren Hastings.
Mris Powney told me that she was much against the sale of 'em, because she knew it was his life and joy.
This Mris Powney assures me that the poor were more relieveable, that is to say, that he recieved more kindnesse from them than from the rich.
Quitting the Palazzo, and threading narrow streets, paved with brick and overshadowed with huge empty palaces, we reach the highest of the three hills on which Siena stands, and see before us the Duomo.
It is built wholly of marble, and overlaid, inside and out, with florid ornaments of exquisite beauty.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "powney" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
