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Example sentences for "dowie"

Lexicographically close words:
dowered; dowerless; dowers; dowery; dowghter; dowitcher; down; downa; downbent; downcast
  1. Rachel knew the verse, because she had formerly noticed that it moved some chord in his memory connected with an old love affair in which his heart had been scathed; but she hesitated, for the meaning it conveyed was dowie and ominous.

  2. Weel, as I was saying, my mither dee'd, and I found the house very dowie without her.

  3. The crystal Jed by Smailcleuchfoot Flows on with murmuring din; It seems to sing a dowie dirge For him that dwelt therein.

  4. As she sped down yon high, high hill, She gaed wi' dule and sorrow, And in the glen spied ten slain men On the dowie banks of Yarrow.

  5. As he gaed up the Tinnies Bank, I wot he gaed wi' sorrow, Till, down in a den he spied nine armed men, On the dowie houms of Yarrow.

  6. Or come ye here to wield your brand On the dowie houms of Yarrow?

  7. She kissed his cheek, she kaimed his hair, She searched his wounds all thorough; She kissed them till her lips grew red, On the dowie houms of Yarrow.

  8. This is the very heart of the Dowie Dens of Yarrow.

  9. The whole land is full of scenes made famous by the adventures of these ancient clans; they may be tracked by blood from Hermitage Castle to the dowie dens of Yarrow and the Peel Tower on the Douglas burn.

  10. It is probable that this is the locality of "the Dowie Dens of Yarrow.

  11. The next bower that he cam till, There was right dowie cheer; Her father and her seven brethren Were making to Annie a bier.

  12. But best-remembered of the Yarrow Cycle is The Dowie Dens.

  13. Annie would have been yet more ready to tell Dowie and Alec each who the other was, had she not been occupied in her own mind with a discovery she had made.

  14. Bruce followed her out, and Dowie came in.

  15. Dowie had been before him, however, and now held the pale child silent in his arms.

  16. As soon as she was alone in her room she drew from her pocket a parcel containing something which Dowie had bought for her on their way home.

  17. Dowie carried her home in his arms, and on the way she told him all about the kindness of Alec and his mother.

  18. Every day, after the noon-tide meal, she would go to sleep on the shady side of a stook, upon two or three sheaves which Dowie would lay down for her in a choice spot.

  19. Sadly her thoughts went back to the old days when Dowie was master of the field, and she was Dowie's little mistress.

  20. Dowie got down and went into the shop; and before he returned Annie had time to make some listless observations.

  21. He asked her many questions about the Bruces; but her patient nature, and the instinctive feeling that it would make Dowie unhappy, withheld her from representing the discomforts of her position in strong colours.

  22. I hae been in a dowie and desponding condition for a year or mair.

  23. And Margot let it go at that, but she was as she said, "dowie and despondent.

  24. She hath looked somewhat dowie of late, this will be the very thing to brighten her up.

  25. For I maun gae, though I ne'er return, "Frae the dowie banks o' Yarrow.

  26. My cruel brother will you betray "On the dowie houms of Yarrow.

  27. As she sped down yon high high hill, She gaed wi' dole and sorrow, And in the den spyed ten slain men, On the dowie banks of Yarrow.

  28. Or come ye here to wield your brand, "On the dowie houms of Yarrow?

  29. Back of Dowie's pulpit were displayed many crutches, plaster-casts, braces, and other spoils wrested from the devil by Dowie and his aids.

  30. Students of Mental Suggestion and Psychic Therapeutics find in the instances of Dowie and Schlatter merely the same underlying principle of Mental Healing resulting from faith, which is operative in all of the other cases mentioned.

  31. He claimed that all disease was the result of the devil, and that belief in God and the prayers of Dowie and his assistants would work the cure of the devil's evil operations.

  32. The modern instances of the several great "Divine Healers," such as John Alexander Dowie of Chicago, and Francis Schlatter of Denver, give us additional evidence of the efficacy of Faith as a therapeutic agent.

  33. When a' the lave gae to their bed, I wander dowie up the glen; I set me down and greet my fill, And ay I wish him back again.

  34. Dowie she saunters down Nithside, And ay a westlin leuk she throws, While tears hap o'er her auld brown nose!

  35. The birdies dowie moaning, Shall a' be blithely singing, And every flower be springing.

  36. As the inside dimensions of the cabin shown in the plan of Fig.

  37. Dowie would pass it rapidly to and fro under his nose, maybe sometimes tasting it, then push the tryer back into the hole, then withdrawing it, leaving its core of butter where it found it.

  38. At the breakfast table Father would say, "Dowie is coming to try the butter to-day.

  39. I remember only that peace soon reigned and Dowie continued to buy our butter.

  40. Dowie said, "I will," and in a moment there stood on the scales the naked firkin of butter, sweating drops of salt water.

  41. But ere three months were at an end, Lord Wearie came again -, But dowie dowie was his heart When first he came hame.

  42. Popularly speaking, the best of the Yarrow ballads concerns itself with the famous "Dowie Dens" tragedy, of which there seems to be some authentic reference in the Selkirk Presbytery Record for 1616.

  43. But she had no fever and she was as sweet and sensible as if she was talking to her Dowie in her own nursery.

  44. The back of her neck, Dowie realised, was now as slenderly round and velvet white as it had been when she had dressed her hair on the night of the Duchess' dance.

  45. She was sitting in the Tower room, watching Dowie open the packages which had come from London.

  46. Perhaps the dream-- Dowie was a little awed.

  47. There was no lamb in his plaid on the afternoon when he startled Dowie by suddenly appearing at the door of the room where she sat sewing-- It was a thing which had never happened before.

  48. It seemed incredible to Dowie that she should have so much of life and suffering behind and before her and yet look like that.

  49. He always did remember," said Dowie watching her.

  50. He was under the spell of her pathetic youngness which made Dowie herself feel as if they were watching over a child called upon to bear something it was unnatural for a child to endure.

  51. The flame of the sky was beyond compare and, after gazing at it for a while, Dowie turned a slow furtive look on Robin.

  52. Dowie tried not to watch her too obviously, but she could scarcely keep her eyes from her.

  53. One of the chief difficulties Dowie often found she was called upon to brace herself to bear was that in these days she looked so pathetically like a child.

  54. In a saft simmer gloamin', In yon dowie dell, It was there we twa first met, By Wearie's cauld well.

  55. The Dowie Dens and Willie's drowned in Yarrow.

  56. My cruel brither will you betray On the dowie banks o' Yarrow.

  57. When he gaed up the Tennies bank, As he gaed mony a morrow, Nine armed men lay in a den, On the dowie braes o' Yarrow.

  58. The fatal duel in the Dowie Dens of Yarrow and the lamented drowning of Willie there have given the stream its 'pastoral melancholy,' and engaged Wordsworth in the renown of the water.

  59. I have not allowed Dowie to dress me for a good many weeks.

  60. Lady Lothwell was her daughter and though she was not regarded as Victorian either of the Early or the Middle periods, Dowie as she returned to her own comfortable quarters wondered what would happen.

  61. Dowie took care of her and Mademoiselle Valle educated her with the assistance of certain masters who came to give lessons in German and Italian.

  62. Only when she thought of Mademoiselle Valle and Dowie looking for her--with all London spread out before their helplessness--did she cry.

  63. But they had been living things to her and her one near warm comfort--closer, oh, so weirdly closer than kind, kind Dowie and dearly beloved Mademoiselle.

  64. She liked it; she began to be grateful as Mademoiselle had said she and Dowie were.

  65. They are her own grandchildren," Dowie said.

  66. Only you and I and Dowie know," answered Mademoiselle.

  67. It was Dowie whose warm shoulder her face hidden on this time, and Dowie was choked with sobs she dared not let loose.

  68. She had been feverish and ill for several days and Dowie had kept her in bed saying that she had caught cold.

  69. Her mother never either knew or cared where she was, but Dowie and Mademoiselle always knew.

  70. The correctness of her to deference to the convenience of Mrs. James the housekeeper in her simplest communication with Dowie quite touched that respectable person's heart.

  71. She thinks not, poor lamb, but she is," Dowie answered.

  72. Everything is changed," she said to Dowie and Mademoiselle who sat on either side of her bed, sometimes pressing her head down onto a kind shoulder, sometimes holding her hand and patting it.

  73. The first is the ballad of the "Dowie Dens," or rather, "Downs of Yarrow.

  74. There were three lords birling at the wine, On the Dowie Dens of Yarrow; They made a compact them between, They would go fecht to-morrow.

  75. For I'll be hame gin' the clock strikes nine, From the Dowie Downs o' Yarrow.

  76. That my lord and I was pu'ing the heather green, From the Dowie Downs o' Yarrow.


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