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  • But iff it mowes to escape, "he warned," orr calls otherrs to its aid, wwe will not trry to hold it.

    Cachalot Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1980

  • _He vanishes in thunder; then, to soft music, enter the Shapes again, and dance with mocks and mowes, and carry out the table.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 8 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • Kate forgat her leg, and Jack his mowes, and all we, stag and hunters alike, ran to the gallery window for to gaze.

    In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • The fithc of Time mowes down, devour unfpar'd j Till I in Man refiding through the race.

    The Works of the English Poets 1779

  • Kate had just made a grab at him, and should have caught him, had his tunic held, but it gave way, and all she won was an handful of worsted and a slip of the step that grazed her shins; and she was rubbing of her leg and crying "Lack-a-day!" and Jack above, well out of reach, was making mowes [grimaces] at us -- when all at once an horn rang loud through the Castle, and man on little ambling nag came into the court-yard.

    In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864

  • 606: The Sithe of Time mowes down, devour unspar'd,

    Paradise Lost (1667) 1667

  • "Forgeve me: I spak it but in mowes, and I was dry.

    The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) John Knox

  • 1410: Denmarke, and those that would make mowes at him

    Hamlet (1623 First Folio Edition) 1623

  • 1410: Denmarke, and those that would make mowes at him

    The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke (1623 First Folio) 1603

  • Sit where you’re told to, and don’t be too hasty to begin eating.] [3: a-wite.] ¶ Grennyng and mowes at the table eschowe;

    Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867

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