Sowerby's

Sowerby's beaked whale, or Mesoplodon bidens for you scientific types, for the record, is one of the more obscure cetaceans, since it pretty much stays in the middle of the ocean and avoids boats, and has rarely been seen alive by anybody, much less me.

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James Sowerby's engraving of Arum Maculatum, in William Curtis, Flora Londiensis, vol. 1 (London, 1777).

Kelley Illustrations 1999

James Sowerby's engraving of Geranium Pratense, in William Curtis, Flora Londiensis, vol. 2 (London, 1777).

Kelley Illustrations 1999

Lennox had a small two-room house down by the tobacco sheds, near Sowerby's house.

A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995

Sowerby's _British Botany_, vol. vi., page 110, is "rather sparingly distributed over England and the south of Scotland."

Scientific American Supplement, No. 415, December 15, 1883 Various

A stooping figure in a shabby, black frock-coat, the figure of a man who wore a dilapidated bowler pressed down upon his ears, who had a greasy, Semitic countenance, with a scrubby, curling, sandy colored beard, sparse as the vegetation of a desert, appeared at Sowerby's elbow.

The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

Sowerby's air of serio-comic defiance began to leave him.

The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

In passing he swept Sowerby's hat on to the floor, and Sowerby, picking it up, began mechanically to brush it with his left sleeve, smoking furiously the while.

The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

It was of little use to go there for valuable editions, or even for such works as Sowerby's _Botany_.

Waiting for Daylight 1915

Dicky had a poor opinion of Sowerby's sense or ability, and yet he knew that if he were in Sowerby's present situation -- living or dead --

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897