dowly

Everything dowly became more heated, crowded, excited.

You Live Once MacDonald, John D. 1956

Eh! but t 'sea were bonny an' warm, an 'for once I got all yon dowly thowts

Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

"A dowly, harden-faced mon, an 'gey hard to bide wi', accordin 'to what all t' day-tale men is sayin '," replied the other.

More Tales of the Ridings Frederic William Moorman 1895

"Nothing to speak of; only 'tis certain sure, and so best; the old house won't look so dowly now."

J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 3 Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

I'd a liked to ask him a lot about the ald lady, but I was too shy, and he and his friend began talkin 'together about their own consarns, and dowly enough I got down, as I told ye, at Lexhoe.

Madam Crowl's Ghost and the Dead Sexton Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

The long and short of it was that if one wanted to be dowly, the dismals could strike as deeply in Yorkshire as in London.

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 1 1980

If for dewing, tie cadi with packthread j dew dowly with white wine and cul - lis, a feggot of fweet herbs, a few cloves and diallots | when done, flcim and fift the fauce to ferve upon them.

Every Woman Her Own House-keeper; Or, The Ladies' Library: Containing the ... 1796

"I knaa it weel, and a dowly path it is; ye'll keep indoors o'nights for a while, or ye'll rue it.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

"I knaa it weel, and a dowly path it is; ye'll keep indoors o'nights for a while, or ye'll rue it.

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2004

"You'll hear it through the wall and it'll mebbe cheer you up if you feel dowly.

The Privet Hedge J. E. Buckrose 1899