9 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DOWFNESS»
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dowfness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
dowfness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Songstresses of Scotland
Oh ! would he were returned again, To drive the dowfness frae us a'. WOO'D AND
MARRIED AND A. The bride she is winsome and bonny, Her hair it is snooded
sae sleek, And faithfu' and kind is her Johnny, Yet fast fa' the tears on her cheek.
Sarah Tytler, Jean L. Watson, 1871
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The songstresses of Scotland, by Sarah Tytler. and J. L. Watson
Dorty, pettish, saucy. Douce, sedate. Dow, do, seeks to do. Dowfness,
melancholy. Dowie, dull, spiritless. Dozened, benumbed. Draff, brewery grains.
Dree, to endure. Dribbles, drops. Drumly, muddy. Duiknewassel, the member of a
Highland ...
Henrietta Keddie, Jean L. Watson, 1871
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The Songstresses of Scotland by Sarah Tytler and J. L. ...
Doddy, without horns. Doited, stupid. Dominie, a teacher. Dool, dule, sorrow, woe
, alas! Dorty, pettish, saucy. Douee, sedate. Dow, do, seeks to do. Dowfness,
melancholy. Dowie, dull, spiritless. Dozened, benumbed. Draf, brewery grains.
Dree ...
A new dowfness dissolvit his members tite; For very dreid and for great horror
alse fateful power blasts arrow astir companies (not groves), trunks shadows fly,
flap, shudder dulness, quickly Up start his hair, the voice stuck in his halse. throat
...
Virgil, Gordon Kendal, 2011
... tryst wi: meeting, п., forgetherin; convene: meeting place, п., howff. melancholy,
п., dowfness; dowieness; adj., dowie; oorie; wae. mellow, adj., maumie. melody, п
., tuiп. melt, v., mouten; sowthcr; render, dripping. membrane, п., s t riffin; hind, ...
... technology airts oor lives; warst ava, the thocht o nuclear war: the super-pooers
harlin us doun in yird-braid tulzie, the haill airth an aise-midden, armageddon's
stew an shamells. Abune aa this, the human factor, the doon-drag — dowfness.
In the fall of 1930, two young mothers-to-be meet by chance on a London bridge, and for both--the one a wealthy American, the other a titled Englishwoman--it is the beginning of a lifelong friendship
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The Phosphates of America
The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general.
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A Book of Lands and Peoples
This volume contains the elements that have formed the base for the writer's former success and should replicate the critical and commercial success of earlier work.
Eric Newby, Sonia Ashmore, 2003
