bowles

Many seem to have lived like modern expats, keeping to their own compounds, importing their own cider, butter, beer and bacon, playing "bowles" and "krickett", indulging in amateur dramatics and drinking too much.

Mathaba Highlights Briefing 2010

I see from my referral records that someone just visited here after Googling "camilla parker bowles 'horse face.'"

Camilla and Charles. Ann Althouse 2005

He's out tokin 'bowles with Austin and the Wellington's all grins.

youneverwin Diary Entry youneverwin 2005

They neuer wash their dishes or bowles: yea, when their flesh is sodden, they wash the platter wherein it must be put, with scalding hot broth out of the pot, and then powre the said broth into the pot againe.

The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

They neuer wash their dishes or bowles: yea, when their flesh is sodden, they wash the platter wherein it must be put, with scalding hot broth out of the pot, and then powre the said broth into the pot againe.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

You walk into the Times Square station just as if you are entering the bowles of New York City to catch a train.

partygirl Diary Entry partygirl 2001

Which bowles were filled with burning coles couered ouer with embers, and in euery vessell vppon the ashes did boyle a little pot of gold, which contrary liquors infused with sweet odours.

Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

Their challenge was, two to two, and he that dranke to his companion must drinke so many times as hee had yeares; the youngest of the foure was eight and fiftie yeares old; the second three-score and three; the third four-score and seven; the fourth four-score and twelve; so that he which dranke least, dranke eight-and-fifty bowles full of wine, and so consequently, according to their yeares, whereof one dranke four-score and twelve bowles.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 348, December 27, 1828 Various

And bring abrode their wassell bowles, who well rewarded bee,

A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide John Ashton

If at supper in these great bowles of thine thys happened vnto thee, who wolde not haue counted it

A Treatise of Schemes and Tropes Richard Sherry