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

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)

One night, however, a neighbor, Madame Margot, stepped into the bowery cottage of the young pair to have a chat and a cup of coffee with Madame Folitton.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, No. 15, August, 1851 by Various

While sailing among these bowery ocean gardens, and gathering their odorous products, the poetic Maximilianus was presented with one of the immortal birds that protected a hero in battle, "the bird of God."

From The Story of Magellan and The Discovery of the Philippines by Butterworth, Hezekiah