But the existence of the modern water-finder or dowser makes the divining-rod a matter of more than mythological or superstitious interest.
But as mining declined in Cornwall, the use of the dowser for searching for lodes almost disappeared, and was transferred to water-finding.
There were threats: a stormy interview, in which thedowser faced the landlord himself.
In a dry country like Mendip the dowser is a most important person; for neither man nor beast can live without water, and he is the only person who can tell where a well should be sunk.
It was better, he thought, to be a born dowser than a Fellow of Balliol.
And on the way home Edwin began to imagine what his strange grandfather the dowser must have been, with the figure of the lonely farmer, his black beard and hair, and his great-aunt Lydia’s noble features and piercing eyes.
That the second personality of the dowser is able to deceive him is now explained, and his obvious honesty so influences non-critical observers that their credulity is no cause for wonder.
The dowser was a retired miller, and came provided with a number of forked twigs.
But directly that he came to the spots the dowser had found the twig showed vigorous signs of animation.
The question is whether, after making every allowance for shrewdness of eye, chance, coincidence, and local geological knowledge, the dowser has any instinctive or supernormal power of discovering the presence of underground water.
The usual practice, after watching a dowser at work, is for some of the onlookers to try if the forked twig will move in their hands.
A dowser finds Because the whole earth's floating, like a raft.
My dowser then found a small shack on the map where a communicator to the ship would be.
She'd evidently had the dowser go over the list of twenty-two dominated planets.
At the time he fully believed that a critical inquiry of this kind would speedily show all the alleged successes of the dowser to be due either to fraud or a sharp eye for the ground.
This is a common phenomenon all over the world, the dowsers' facts support it, geologists know all about it, yet I presume they have told you that when a dowser states this fact it ceases to be a fact and becomes an absurdity!
I hope persons or corporations who are going to employ a dowser will now advise you so that you may be present.
Such are the cases when people hold the rod for the first time and have never seen a dowser work, yet the rod turns, over water, to their great astonishment, etc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dowser" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
