Bowers

Once or twice I have rashly tried my hand at dark conspiracies, and women rare and radiant in Italian bowers; but I have a friend who is sure to say, ` ` Try and tell us about the butcher next door, my dear. '' ❋ Unknown (1862)

Males erect twig structures, called bowers, to serve as stages for their mating displays, decorating them with fruits, flowers and found objects. ❋ Jennie Erin Smith (2011)

Their bowers are their ball and assembly rooms; and we are very much mistaken if they are not, like places of meeting, ❋ Various (N/A)

Male great bowerbirds -pigeon-size birds native to Australia - spend the majority of their time building and maintaining their courtship sites, called bowers. ❋ Unknown (2012)

"Now for the jail," he said, and accompanied by his two "bowers," as he often called them, he left the room and walked to the Kansas City jail. ❋ A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton (N/A)

Just before you reach the Whitney drive there is a right angle turn from the trail which we were following; it back-tracks a little, errs and strays through some fine jasmine "bowers," and comes out at the old race track. ❋ Gouverneur Morris (1914)

A kedge, the unprofessional must know, is a light anchor, dropped for a momentary stop, or to haul a ship ahead, the title being in so far very consonant to the object of instruction; whereas the sheet-anchor is the great and last stand-by of a vessel, let go as a final resource after the two big "bowers," which constitute the usual reliance. ❋ Unknown (1877)

As is the case with the "bowers" of most English country girls of her class, it was rich in those treasures, which, like the advertised contents of lost pocket-books are "of no value to any one but the owner." ❋ Unknown (1872)

Recognizing the flaws and frauds in the foundations of Islam, Judaism and Christianity by the "bowers" (like Akbar Ahmed), "kneelers" and "pew peasants" will quickly converge these religions into some simple rules of life. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The stranger was not a little astonished when he discovered, on descending from the height, that among these industrious females were the laird's own lady, and two or three of her daughters; but they seemed quite unconscious of having been detected in an occupation unsuitable to their rank -- retired presently to their "bowers," and when they reappeared in other dresses, retained no traces of their morning's work, except complexions glowing with a radiant freshness, for one evening of which many a high-bred beauty would have bartered half her diamonds. ❋ Unknown (1824)

"bowers" (_Thalamos_, like that of Telemachus in the courtyard), where they sat spinning and gossiping. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

Yes | No | Report from dusty bowers wrote 41 weeks 5 days ago that is just crap i am 15 i got to shoot when i was 11 i miss out on a lot i dont want others to miss out like i did. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Qianlong Garden has four connected courtyards with seven buildings, six pavilions, two bowers, a number of rockeries, one belvedere and such poetically named spaces as "Terrace for Collecting Morning Dew." ❋ Lee Lawrence (2010)

"The bowers go where it isn't cost effective for our distributors to go because of the much smaller drop sizes," Mr. Miller says. ❋ John Revill (2011)

The bowers strap as much as 50 kilograms of products onto their bikes to deliver to schools, work canteens and smaller shops across the archipelago's thousands of islands. ❋ John Revill (2011)

Now he outlawed campfires, ordered muskets kept always loaded, noncoms to keep bayonets fixed, and forbade anyone from erecting “bowers” as shelter from the wretched weather. ❋ David A. Clary (2011)

In later years, she encouraged a succession of admirers to scramble after her over barbed wire and through hedge bottoms to find picnic places and hidden bowers and dells and burrows. ❋ Unknown (2011)

[The boys] were [drawing] attention to themselves by [acting] like complete bowers, and annoying everyone. ❋ C.C.J. (2007)

[Oh man], I took [one hell of a] bowers [this morning] ❋ The Gypsy (2006)

[I bet] that hot, [wet] shit I just [took] created a bowers. ❋ Urinal Cake (2008)

[tracy] [dropped out] school. what a [piece a] shit...she turned out to be a real bowers. ❋ Jeremy345 (2008)

When he heard the news that he got a [4.0 GPA] last quarter, he [rewarded] himself with a nice, [relaxing] bower. ❋ Skanpolo (2006)

Regardez [mon] [visage]! Regardez mon visage! I AIN'T [BOWERED]!!!! ❋ Princessconsuelabananahammock (2009)

That [Bethany] is a real [looker]. [Too bad] she is a white supremicist.. She must be a Bowers ❋ John Hefferson (2008)

"I heard [Nick] is a Bower" "Yes, he [learnt] that in [prison]" ❋ Tommybrah (2014)

"[You are] [such a] [Bowering]" ❋ Stevo (2016)

ex.1: Stephen: What did you think of her? Dylan: I'm not feeling it. She's a total [bowers]. ex.2: [Deborah]: Did you catch that party last night? Tina: Didn't go. Heard it was a bowers [rerun] anyway. Deborah: That's what you ask for when you mix drinks in a barn yard. ex.3: Chris: Look out! [Bowers] alert! Eric: Relax, we way too young. I'd warn your dad though. ❋ Chris.Plum.Sen.Nim (2010)