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Lowry   Listen
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Lowry  n.  An open box car used on railroads. Compare Lorry.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lowry" Quotes from Famous Books



... decamped betimes; and pursuing his route down Black river, for thirty-five miles, through woods, and swamps and bogs, where there was no road, encamped the following night on advantageous ground, at Benbow's ferry, now Lowry's bridge, about ten miles above Kingstree, on the east side of Black river. In a partisan warfare this position was the best that could have been taken. He could now defend himself, first at Black ...
— A Sketch of the Life of Brig. Gen. Francis Marion • William Dobein James

... Scientific Institutions, Exhibitions, and Galleries of Art; together with some Account of the principal Suburbs and most attractive Localities. Illustrated with 205 Engravings on Wood, by Branston, Jewitt, and others; and a very large and complete Map, engraved by Lowry. Post 8vo. cloth. 5s. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 • Various

... Liverpool consultant, but he had not inherited the talents of his father, and Dr. Lana, with his advantages of presence and of manner, soon beat him out of the field. Dr. Lana's social success was as rapid as his professional. A remarkable surgical cure in the case of the Hon. James Lowry, the second son of Lord Belton, was the means of introducing him to county society, where he became a favourite through the charm of his conversation and the elegance of his manners. An absence of antecedents and of relatives is sometimes ...
— Tales of Terror and Mystery • Arthur Conan Doyle

... talked it all over in wild boy fashion, and went every day at six in the morning to Lowry's on South street. At first we both hated the work, but this did not last; and, once we were used to it, the business had for fellows like ourselves a certain charm. The horses we learned to know and understand. ...
— Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker • S. Weir Mitchell

... a planet because it was moving from north to south, and it was too slow to be an airplane. I called the balloon- plotting center at Lowry AFB, where the tracks of the big skyhook balloons are plotted, but the only big balloons in the air were in the western United States, and they ...
— The Report on Unidentified Flying Objects • Edward Ruppelt

... of the village was very small, but before the expiration of the Conference year Brother Robinson was able to form a class of four members. These first members were David Worthington, Mrs. Samuel Brown, Mrs. J.K. Lowry, and Mrs. Farmin. ...
— Thirty Years in the Itinerancy • Wesson Gage Miller

... Miss Dagget and she told the Editor of the Augur's wife, and she told Ben Lowry's widder, and she told the Editor of the Gimlet's mother-in-law, and she told me. It come straight, that Serenus only stayed there nights and to a early breakfast, but spent his hull durin' time to Coney Island, and he a twin ...
— Samantha at Coney Island - and a Thousand Other Islands • Marietta Holley



Words linked to "Lowry" :   author, L. S. Lowry, Laurence Stephen Lowry



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