Sowerby

If you want to find it in Sowerby's English Botany, you had better take the second edition of that work, where you will find the plant in question in the Linnæan class and order Didynàmia Gymnospérmia, from two of the stamens being longer than the others, and the seeds being what is called naked, that is, not enclosed in any visible pod or other seed-vessel.

The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845

"Sowerby," he said, "I am glad to find that you have survived the lecture.

Framley Parsonage Anthony Trollope 1848

Farther south, Mrs Sowerby is one of a number of characters living in Stockbridge played by Susan Brown in Plague of the Daleks the latest Big Finish audio in their main Doctor Who series.

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The Sowerby family - Martha, Dickon, and their unnamed mother and ten siblings - play a large role in The Secret Garden.

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Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Halifax: Milner and Sowerby, 1865).

Editions of Mary Shelley's _Frankenstein_ 2010

I've been encountering a lot of fictional people called Sowerby lately.

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Getting Jane Sowerby to write about lace yarns was a first-rate idea, but too specialised to fill the hole.

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And farther south again, I'm also reading Trollope's Framley Parsonage, where there is a villainous Sowerby who I hope will come to a sticky end.

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Of her three charges: Rose Wetherby is going to marry; Victoria “Tor” Sowerby is her bridesmaid; and teen Guy Glover is going home after being expelled from school.

East of the Sun-Julia Gregson « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews 2009

Sowerby was one of the most influential musicians of the twentieth century, and is commonly referred to as the “dean of American church music.”

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