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  • In 1841, you and I had together a tedious lowwater trip on a steamboat from Louisville to St. Louis.

    Naomi Wolf: Fake Patriotism 2008

  • They could not have been very different; the place could hardly have been much wilder, and there was the "creeke hardby wher they lay," the hapless women and children, in their boat "at lowwater," while the evening came on, no doubt, just as it was doing with us, the weather clearing, and the sunset glassy and cold.

    Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878

  • But it so fell out, that they were ther a day before the shipe came, and the sea being rough, and the women very sicke, prevailed with the seamen to put into a creeke hardby, wher they lay on ground at lowwater.

    Seven English Cities William Dean Howells 1878

  • $25 million in state bonds for lowwater dams on the Arkansas River in Tulsa County.

    unknown title 2009

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