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  • Her costar, Spencer Cowle, actually caught her when she passed out for a moment.

    Starlit Lisa Rinna 2010

  • Far out combination with main of roast chicken from Cowle ...

    Out and about jinty 2008

  • Most worthy Ladies, there wants no store of men and women, that are so simple, as to credit for a certainty, that so soon as a yong virgin hath the veile put on hir head, and the black Cowle given to cover withall, she is no longer a woman, nor more sensible of feminine affections, then as if in turning Nun, shee became converted to a stone.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Cowle, with a large Hood hanging over his eyes, that she should not know him, and so he went and sate downe in the Confessors place.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Friars Cowle, which was so snottie and greazie, that good store of kitchin stuffe might have beene boiled out of it; as also a foule slovenly Trusse or halfe doublet, all baudied with bowsing, fat greazie lubberly sweating, and other drudgeries in the Convent

    The Decameron 2004

  • Reliques he had left behind him, I meane the Friars hood and Cowle, which shewing to their sister, and sharpely reproving her unwomanly behaviour: they left her in no meane discomfort, returning home to their owne houses, with their conquered spolle of the forlorne

    The Decameron 2004

  • Two ten year old Stabler trees and a ten year old Jansen tree killed back to the ground level, and one year old growth of Cowle, Havice, Jansen,

    Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

  • The seedling trees from the Cowle nuts produce nuts with rough shells.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Incorporated 39th Annual Report at Norris, Tenn. September 13-15 1948

  • When Nelson was shot down at Trafalgar, Cowle, a one-armed Manx quartermaster, caught him in his remaining arm.

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

  • Dear old Cowle, that cautious word showed you were no Irishman, but a downright middling Manxman.

    The Little Manx Nation - 1891 Hall Caine 1892

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