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Example sentences for "rowel"

Lexicographically close words:
rowdies; rowdy; rowdyish; rowdyism; rowed; roweled; rowelled; rowels; rowen; rower
  1. Rowel exclaimed, as he threw out his right arm in order to strike off the intruder.

  2. Rowel to witness the agonies of the human countenance.

  3. Rowel as he kicked and plunged like a horse in a bog to shake off his foe.

  4. Rowel knew that the memorandum he held, morally binding upon Woodruff to leave him in undisputed possession of Charnwood, was useless, except between himself and that unfortunate man.

  5. Rowel prevented her, and left Miss Sowersoft's philippic against listeners and listening in all its force and weight upon her mind.

  6. Finding that he could not call this strange individual to him, Doctor Rowel stepped across the yard, and advanced up to him.

  7. From the very nature of things, my dear," Mr. Rowel replied.

  8. In fact, though I abhor anything that might be supposed to touch on scandal, Mrs. Rowel liked sherry.

  9. The messenger who, meanwhile, had been despatched into the village of Bramleigh to summon Doctor Rowel to the assistance of his mistress, returned with another conjectural interpretation of the affair.

  10. Of course Jack was too game to let on he knew he'd been done, but not too busy to sharpen a rowel for Lory.

  11. She twirled her rowel in silence for a time, her eyes fixed on it.

  12. She used his sawbuck for a seat, and sat with one booted ankle resting on a knee, idly spinning the rowel of her spur as she talked.

  13. He felt surprised to hear her allude to Doctor Rowel in a manner so changed from that in which she had always spoken of him formerly.

  14. Rowel ought at least to be put upon his guard, in order that he might station proper watchmen in his neighbourhood to seize the culprit whenever he might make his appearance.

  15. Rowel had obtained the document from James Woodruff, a copy of which has already been given, he still continued in doubt as to the course he should pursue to make himself secure.

  16. As I have before stated that the visit had been previously arranged, Mrs. Rowel was of course prepared to conduct her almost immediately over the establishment.

  17. Rowel in a part of the road which warranted some suspicion that the latter might have been up to his house, and accordingly he proceeded to question Fanny on the subject.

  18. In the bar of the little tavern at Bramleigh, Doctor Rowel was seated before a round table, on which stood a glass of cold sherry and water, with a thin biscuit on a little plate beside it.

  19. Some few days afterwards, a note from the Squire informed him that Rowel had taken the bait, and would be at his hotel at seven in the evening.

  20. Rowel was presented here to stifle Fanny's evidence for ever!

  21. Rowel to the horrified young woman; but she did not obey him.

  22. Doctor Rowel had just folded up the bed-clothes.

  23. I shall only add, that these movements can be permanently determined by wheels, when the rowel f g, acting on the horizontal surface c, has fixed the real velocities of draught required for a given purpose.

  24. I know that the spur with a five-pointed rowel is preferred by ladies who have tried it to any other; but, whatever spur is selected, a lady should take care that the points are long enough to be effective when the habit intervenes.

  25. She rode a la cavaliere, in a Mexican saddle, and wearing big rowel Mexican spurs, and appears from her account to have preferred this style of riding to the modern style and side-saddle.

  26. The spur with one point and a spring sheath is commonly sold by saddlers for ladies' use, but is liable to break or get out of order, and is always discarded in favour of the one with a five-pointed rowel by ladies who have tried the latter.

  27. If the rowel is moderately sharp only, no cruelty can arise, less I maintain than in the use of a whip.

  28. The rowel pin is a screw pin; thus the rowel can be changed at pleasure, and a sharp or a blunt one fitted as is required by the horse one rides.

  29. If "Mabel Florence Rayne" tries the rowel spur and the bit I mentioned in my former letter, I am sure she will be satisfied with them, and perhaps she will write her opinion for the benefit of others.

  30. I should certainly prefer a spur with a rowel as "Southern Cross" recommends, but would it not be apt to tear the habit?

  31. The most nervous animal may be taught to bear the application of the rowel with complacency, and without such discipline it would be impossible to make the gallop changes, and many other movements directed by the spur, smoothly and uniformly.

  32. As the band broke away from our swinging ropes, a number of them ran afoul of my rope; but I gave the rowel to my grulla, and we shook them off.

  33. I was riding my Nigger Boy, and as the cattle headed toward me, away from the cause of their fright, I had to use both quirt and rowel to keep clear of the onrush.

  34. Everything being in readiness, the word was given, and as those on the south bank eased away, those on horseback on the other side gave the rowel to their horses, and our commissary floated across.

  35. I rode her myself, and if she's got any run in her, rowel and quirt won't bring it out.

  36. Ned rode slowly alongside his companion, as he passed, bringing the rowel of his spur sharply against the withers of Chunky's mount.

  37. While it had not punctured the skin, the spur had raked the coat, showing that the rowel had been applied with considerable force.

  38. For it was the rowel of a spur, a tiny, sharp, shining rowel that had come loose from a spur he remembered very well.

  39. In the end he put out the light, slipped the spur rowel into his vest pocket, and went out to his horse.

  40. The rowel spur again appears on the effigy of Le Botiler (woodcut, No.

  41. The rowel spur is found but in one or two instances during this century.

  42. No earlier instance of the rowel spur has been observed, and indeed it seldom appears again during the whole century.

  43. All he asked of God was to escape their trampling hoofs, and though he gained he dug the rowel and plied the quirt, unmindful of what he did.

  44. He dug the rowel into his horse’s side and began his day at no laggard pace.

  45. My horse was fidgeting about, impatient to be off, but I gave him the rowel and rode up to the gate, determined, if possible, to pour oil on the troubled waters.

  46. But the warning shot had reached every rider on the circle, and as I plied rowel and quirt to turn the band, Tio Tiburcio cut in before me and headed them backward.

  47. Holcombe was sitting on the other side of the fire, prying at the rowel of his spur with a hunting-knife.

  48. Carroll lowered the paper slowly to his knee and stared curiously through the smoky light to where Holcombe sat intent on the rowel of his spur.

  49. As a mullet is really the "molette" or rowel of a spur, it certainly could not exist as a fact unpierced.

  50. Sollerets, or long, pointed shoes, whereto are attached rowel spurs, complete his outfit.

  51. Twenty grains taken inwardly is a sufficient dose for one time, and let that be corrected with half so much cinnamon; country people used to rowel their cattle with it.

  52. It was generally borne pierced with a round hole, and then represents, as its name implies, the rowel of a spur.

  53. In ancient rolls of arms the word Rowel is often used, and probably indicated the pierced molet.

  54. The rowel was struck deep and the consequences were not considered.

  55. It is not started by slight scratches, but strike the rowel deep, and there is a purpose in it that nothing can conquer or restrain.

  56. XCIV But first 'tis right that woman to unchain, She whom the hangman-crew to death escort; And the quick rowel and the loosened rein Made the quick coursers make that labour short.

  57. Under the early Plantagenets the point was fixed on a ball, while the rowel spur is seen in the monument to Le Botiler of the reign of Henry III.

  58. Both the goad and rowel forms were in use throughout the century, and when knights habitually dismounted to fight, they were taken off.

  59. In extreme cases, I also rowel in the breast and hind legs, to extract the corruption and remove the swelling.

  60. His booted foot moved, but now rowel points flashed in the sun.

  61. The deepest dig from the rowel will not leave behind it the smart of the weal from a cutting whip.

  62. The rowel pin is a screw-pin; thus the rowel can be changed at pleasure, and a sharp or blunt one fitted as required by the horse one rides.

  63. This fire was so named from the effect it produces, that of forming scintillations, resembling a shower, or drops of rain, or the rowel of a spur.

  64. The spur-fire is so called, because its fire or sparks resemble the rowel of a spur.


  65. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rowel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.