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  • Shaun replied, while he was fondling one of his cowheel cuffs.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • Tripe and cowheel are regarded as dainties, and there is the whole range of mysterious English preparations of questionable meat, from sausage and polonies to saveloys and cheap pies.

    Prisoners of Poverty Abroad Helen Campbell 1878

  • I shot be shoddied, throttle me, fine me cowheel for ever, usquebauched the ersewild aleconner, for bringing briars to Bem-bracken and ringing rinbus round Demetrius for, as you wrinkle wryghtly, bully bluedomer, it’s a suirsite’s stircus haunting hes-teries round old volcanoes.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • The story is true, and the pamphlet, Borrow afterwards told me (I know not on what authority), was written by Goldsmith from Gwinett’s dictation for a platter of cowheel.

    Old Familiar Faces Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • All I can say is, that if this same Sir Robert forces the Cooleen Baum to such an unnatural marriage, I'll try a dose, hit or miss, for a cowheel anyway. "

    Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One William Carleton 1831

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