"Dowse" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... for end, as one might say; and I endeavour to pay you, in your own coin. There is no man whose orders I obey more willingly or more to my own advantage; always excepting those of Admiral Oakes, who, being commander-in-chief, overlays us all with his anchor. We must dowse our peaks to his signals, though we can maintain, without mutinying, that the Caesar is as good a boat on or off a wind, as the Plantagenet, the best day Sir Jarvy ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper
... both of you," cried Jack, in a quick, earnest tone; "be ready to dowse the sail. I very much fear we won't make the island ...
— The Coral Island - A Tale Of The Pacific Ocean • R. M. Ballantyne
... And could have given him, she told the widow (who related to me all this) a good dowse of ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson
... he. 'It's one of Boney's armies, with Boney himself in the middle of it as like as not. Them is their camp fires, and you'll see a dozen such between this and Ostend. He's audacious enough to come across, is little Boney, if he could dowse Lord Nelson's other eye; but there's no chance for him until then, and well ...
— Uncle Bernac - A Memory of the Empire • Arthur Conan Doyle
... which there was no escape. The influence of that time, and of the time that succeeded it, still dwelt upon her, and overshadowed her with its gloom. She had almost lost the instinct of hope. She never doubted, when they carried young Dowse into that silent room, but that he would die: was it not her province to bring misery to all who were associated with her? And she had got so reconciled to this notion that she did not argue the matter with herself; she had, for example, no sense of bitterness ...
— The Galaxy - Vol. 23, No. 1 • Various
... precario, as his tutor courteously phrased it. And then he had gotten out of his college gown into a beautiful blue frock coat and white duck trousers, and driven into town and sought for other favors, more of flesh and blood, carried his other degree with a rush—and Miss Abigail Dowse off to drive with him. And that evening Mr. James Bowdoin had said to ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... country, not even to eat with decency, and, since 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 than ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 4, No. 24, Oct. 1859 • Various |
