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There was a crunch an 'a splash, an' there was the chairman's bowd legs stickin 'up oot o' the boiler, an 'his face lookin' throo atween his taes, wi 'a pair o' een like a wild cat.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

He's a snod bit stockie -- a little beld, an 'bowd-leggit, an' wants a thoom.

My Man Sandy J. B. Salmond

"I lad, an corporals too, aw'll be bun; but bowd thi whisht, whatever tha does -- we'll come for thi as sooin as we want thi; does ta think tha could sup a drop o 'summat if tha had it?"

Yorksher Puddin' A Collection of the Most Popular Dialect Stories from the Pen of John Hartley John Hartley 1877

Jud sprung upo 'th' stage leet as a buck an 'bowd as a dandycock, an' th 'mon what were playingk th' drum (only it wer'nt a gradely drum) gen him a pair o 'gloves.

English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day 1873

By the way many good olde people, and diuers others of yonger yeers, of meere kindnes gaue me bowd sixepences and grotes, blessing me with their harty prayers and

Kemps Nine Daies Wonder Performed in a Daunce from London to Norwich William Kemp 1833

She bowd over the weeping infant, and her life exhald

Poems of William Blake William Blake 1792

The Cloud descended and the Lily bowd her modest head:

Poems of William Blake William Blake 1792

Called Peanut in "The Clean Life Club," he went to join other boys in smoking "ducks" (half-smoked, discarded cigarettes) behind the Y's "tena bowd."

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