Lowans

During the morning, before we arrived here, Tommy had been most successful in obtaining Lowans 'eggs, and we had eleven or twelve with us.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

To-day we managed to get thirty-four Lowans 'eggs, yesterday we had secured twenty-seven.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

We got several Lowans '-- or, as the West Australians call them, Gnows' -- eggs, thirty yesterday, and forty-five to-day.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

Lowans and other desert birds and marsupials appear never to approach the watering-places.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

There are much easier feats to perform than the carrying of Lowans 'eggs, and for the benefit of any readers who don't know what those eggs are like, I may mention that they are larger than a goose egg, and of a more delicious flavour than any other egg in the world.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

Tommy and others had also found a few Lowans ', Leipoa ocellata, nests, and we secured a few of the pink-tinted eggs; this was the laying season.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

But explorers in the field are not such particular mortals as to stand upon such trifles; indeed, parboiled, youthful, Lowans 'eyes are considered quite a delicacy in the camp.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

To-day we came upon three Lowans 'or native pheasants' nests.

Australia Twice Traversed, Illustrated, Ernest Giles 1866

Lowans 'production seldom simmers the way it could, but the spirit of rebellion is alive and well in Sarah Newhouse's schoolteacher Rosemary.

California Chronicle 2009

Lowans 'production seldom simmers the way it could, but the spirit of rebellion is alive and well in Sarah Newhouse's schoolteacher Rosemary.

California Chronicle 2009