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  • He inform'd me how this Piece of the Mast had stuck amongst those Boughs which bow'd down from the Rock,

    Exilius 2008

  • After this, they all three bow'd, and vanish'd, which greatly amazed me; for till then, I could not tell what to guess about their being cast away, they look'd so like true substantial Persons.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • Tree, whose Branches bow'd down to the Sea, by which I was caught by the

    Exilius 2008

  • After this, they all three bow'd, and vanish'd, which greatly amazed me; for till then, I could not tell what to guess about their being cast away, they look'd so like true substantial Persons.

    The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen 2008

  • She chooses to probe this superstition further here, giving us to understand that "Fear" triggers this cycle of sacrifice, "Fear" that "bow'd before the phantoms she portray'd" (16).

    Hemans, Heber, and _Superstition and Revelation_ 1998

  • But first it bow'd an syne it brak and sae did my fause love tae me.

    Waly, Waly 3 1962

  • When we moved to go into the dining-parlour, Miss Winter bow'd for me to follow Lady Allen and her mother; which after I had declined, Lady Powis took me by the hand, and said, smiling, No, Madam, Miss Warley is one of us.

    Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

  • He bow'd, and in a moment leap'd among the lions wild: 20

    The Ontario High School Reader A.E. Marty

  • She never bow'd to ony, O! A land of heroes, famed an 'brave --

    The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

  • -- To-morrow, Mr. Molesworth, said her Ladyship, I bespeak the favour of your company and Lord Darcey's to dine with me in _Pall-Mall_: -- I bow'd, and answer'd both for his Lordship and myself.

    Barford Abbey Susannah Minific Gunning

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