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Definition of Cowered
1. cower [v] - See also: cower
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowered
Literary usage of Cowered
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens (1854)
"But she was beautiful enough to her little dog, who cowered under her dress,
frightened, when she went upon the scaffold, and who lay down beside her ..."
2. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"... look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out the heat better than the little
square hole over which we cowered in one saloon at the Hotel de Louvre. ..."
3. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"The fire made our great chamber look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out
the heat better than the little square hole over which we cowered in one ..."
4. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"The fire made our great chamber look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out
the heat better than the little square hole over which we cowered in one ..."
5. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1866)
"Old Fuss and Feathers " could not save them, All their boasting was in vain,
Before the Southern steel they cowered, And their bodies strewed the plain. ..."
6. A Child's History of England by Charles Dickens (1854)
"But she was beautiful enough to her little dog, who cowered under her dress,
frightened, when she went upon the scaffold, and who lay down beside her ..."
7. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne, George Parsons Lathrop, Julian Hawthorne (1883)
"... look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out the heat better than the little
square hole over which we cowered in one saloon at the Hotel de Louvre. ..."
8. Passages from the French and Italian Note-books of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1899)
"The fire made our great chamber look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out
the heat better than the little square hole over which we cowered in one ..."
9. The Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1888)
"The fire made our great chamber look comfortable, and the fireplace threw out
the heat better than the little square hole over which we cowered in one ..."
10. Anecdotes, Poetry, and Incidents of the War: North and South : 1860-1865 by Frank Moore (1866)
"Old Fuss and Feathers " could not save them, All their boasting was in vain,
Before the Southern steel they cowered, And their bodies strewed the plain. ..."
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