bowies

The "bowies" and "hunting knives" usually kept on sale, are thick, clumsy affairs, with a sort of ridge along the middle of the blade, murderous-looking, but of little use; rather fitted to adorn a dime novel or the belt of "Billy the

Woodcraft George Washington Sears 1855

“Do you not know,” said Old Mortality, “that he sells them to your grandfather, who makes them into spoons, trenchers, bickers, bowies, and so forth?”

Old Mortality 2004

In the '50s and' 40s, they had such a problem with them they formed this tsunami warning kind of grid that they put the bowies out in the water and they're able, after they get a report of an earthquake to see if the water has shifted and to be able to sound warnings on the coastline.

CNN Transcript Dec 27, 2004 2004

Lamps for young Aladdins, and bowies for the bold!

Nights in London Thomas Burke 1915

It is the fashion, indeed, of these southern gentry to assemble on Saturdays and Sundays, for gambling, horse-racing, cock-fighting, and political talk (for they are citizens of a great republic) and at these reunions quarrels and duels are frequent -- glasses being thrown, dirks drawn, bowies and pistols brought into active use.

Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction. A Supplement to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Being Startling Incidents in the Lives of Celebrated Fugitive Slaves. 1911

Planters 'House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and bowies, and depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most pleasurable of Anglo-Saxon pastimes, a free fight.

The Crisis — Complete Winston Churchill 1909

Gentlemen of Cavalier and Puritan descent had not yet begun to arrive at the Planters 'House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and bowies, and depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most pleasurable of

The Crisis — Volume 01 Winston Churchill 1909

Gentlemen of Cavalier and Puritan descent had not yet begun to arrive at the Planters 'House, to buy hunting shirts and broad rims, belts and bowies, and depart quietly for Kansas, there to indulge in that; most pleasurable of

Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill Winston Churchill 1909

"They'd have done for him with their bowies," said Dallas.

To Win or to Die A Tale of the Klondike Gold Craze George Manville Fenn 1870

Instead, they are close together, have clutched one another, and are fighting, hand to hand, with _bowies_!

The Death Shot A Story Retold Mayne Reid 1850