dowie

• The story was too true a one; but, alack-a-day, it was now over late to repent As I was thus musing, the bright red sun of summer sank down behind the top of the Pentland Hills, and all looked bluish, dowie, and dreary, as if the heart of the world had been seized with a sudden dwalm, and the face of nature had at once withered from blooming youth into the hoariness of old age. —  The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith
• Do you imagine that religious people are dull, or dowie, as the Scotch say? —  A Dream of the North Sea
• She was wonderfully thin and fragile, but wonderfully pretty, as she sat there under the cedar At last he said, with a grumbling note I wish you wouldn't look so thin and dowie-like, as we say up at home--you've no cause to fret, I'm sure The temper of twenty-one gave way. —  Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II
• Ony gait, ae thing's easy priven: ye lay verra dowie (poorly) for a month or sax ooks ance upon a time at Lossie Hoose, an' that was a feow years, we needna speir hoo mony, efter ye was lichtened o' the tither. —  Malcolm
• She's been unco dowie (ailing) a' the summer; and sae has the bairnie Ye maun hae had a sair time o' 't, than Ay, some. —  Robert Falconer

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