Bowery

Example Sentences

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For years it’s been the place where I have routinely purchased pairs of light hickory bowery pants in a classic fit.

From Forbes • Jun. 15, 2015

I will likely continue buying classic-fit light hickory bowery pants until they stop making them, or until I never go to an office again.

From Forbes • Jun. 15, 2015

Sometimes they went forth in companies, these men, to some favourite rural haunt, some delightfully situated hostel or tavern by the river's bank, or to the bowery woods near Richmond or Greenwich.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

She let her thoughts ramble away to carpets and curtains, and china flower-pots and Venetian blinds, and little bits of ornamentation, which should transform George's house from its square nakedness into a bowery cottage.

From The Doctor's Wife by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

"Me rather, all that bowery loneliness, The brooks of Eden mazily murmuring, And bloom profuse, and cedar arches charm."

From The Taming of the Jungle by Doyle, Dr. C. W.