trowling

“I have set the stone a-trowling, look that you do not let it stand still.”

The Abbot 2008

But like you, we find some cosmic significance in trowling its' many crevices and gullies, in search of something more entertaining than "Rockford Files" dialog soundbytes, more stimulating than repeated google searches for "cottage cheese + ass", and perhaps even more gasp! creative or intelligent than the crap that wafts downstream via the local newswire.

Sites for Sore Eyes 2005

Inspired by the glut of MP3 blogs that I've been trowling of late, I spent the other night rifling through my own records on a quest to dig out some bits of musical esoterica from my past that might make for interesting reading.

WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

Inspired by the glut of MP3 blogs that I've been trowling of late, I spent the other night rifling through my own records on a quest to dig out some bits of musical esoterica from my past that might make for interesting reading.

It Was Easy, It Was Cheap 2005

By trowling, the strings -- its ends were held one in each hand -- are made to twist.

Healthful Sports for Boys Alfred Rochefort

Early in the morning the inhabitants were roused by "Old Helen's trowling bells," which were answered by the "Low Bells of honest Nick," meaning the bells of the two churches:

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

Warrington sharing our sentiment and trowling out those noble lines of the old poet: --

The Newcomes William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

-- Mrs. Putler, this is Lady -- Lady -- these tamned Southern names rin out o 'my head like a stane trowling down hill -- put I believe she is

The Heart of Mid-Lothian, Complete Walter Scott 1801

A trowling-rod here gets you a bite in a moment, of a pike from twenty to forty pounds.

A Tour in Ireland 1776-1779 Arthur Young 1780

Lady — Lady — these tamned Southern names rin out o’ my head like a stane trowling down hill — put I believe she is

The Heart of Mid-Lothian 2007