dowie

It is a gruesome and dowie den, but well worth a visit.

The Hawaiian Archipelago Isabella Lucy 2004

Tebeeb washka't dowie elmoot_, i.e. "O, doctor, canst thou cure death?"

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny

Mirren McKinnon, that was once Mirren Stuart, was dowie that day, and her eyes red with greeting, for her son had gone to the sea, as his father had long ago.

The McBrides A Romance of Arran John Sillars

The people were sleeping; the salt air of Loch Finne went sighing through the place in a way that made me dowie for old days.

John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

The first days were dowie, while time slipt awa ';

The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

Ah, weel may young Jamie gang dowie and cheerless,

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century Various

And then if ye’re dowie, I will sit wi’ you a gliff in the evening mysell, man, and help ye out wi’ your bottle; —I have drank mony a glass wi Glossin, man, that did you up, though he’s a justice now.

Chapter XLIV 1917

I cried all the way home; and then sat down so/dowie/by the fire, indisposed to speak to any son or daughter of Adam.

New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

"I wish you wouldn't look so thin and dowie-like, as we say up at home -- you've no cause to fret, I'm sure."

Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II Humphry Ward 1885

Yarrow, and the deep black pools, now called the "dowie dens," and so,

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878