gowans

The day had been sultry, and the moon rose slowly over the mounds of Maiden Bower, once the site of the noble mansion of the Percys, now destroyed and desolate; [2] and fell in dreary softness on tower and wood, illumining the sable firs of Newby Park, and throwing another lustre on the gaudy "gowans" that decked the adjacent meadow.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 343, November 29, 1828 Various

The archaic sound of the Lowland Scots phrases—"we twa hae run about the braes/ and pu't the gowans fine"—gives it the ring of something both ancient and familiar, just as the song itself is about distance and proximity, about the faraway friend and the one raising a glass with you now.

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

There's also a modest bunch of pressed wildflowers she and Nathaniel picked on Burns's Mossgiel Farm—the wild daisies, or gowans, of "Auld Lang Syne."

Visiting an Auld Acquaintance Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim 2011

RULES FOR REPORTING THE WAR by Stephen Gowans Monday, Aug. 14, 2006 gowans. blogspot.com/2006/08/rules-for-reporting-on-war. html

10 MIDDLE EAST REPORTING RULES FOR WESTERN MEDIA 2006

But here a little patch of cleared ground shows old friends, who seem to cling by abused civilisation: - fine, hardy thistles, one of them bright yellow, though; — honest, Scotch-looking, large daisies or gowans; — potatoes here and there, looking but sickly; and dark sturdy fig-trees looking cool and at their ease in the burning sun.

Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

Swappin yarns tae cowe the gowans, O horo, the Gillie Mor

Gillie Mor 1997

Whose life-blood stain'd the gowans of some far foreign lea,

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

Wi 'gowans and buttercups buskin' the thorny wands --

The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain

He confesses his ignorance as to what gowans are, but I have no doubt that Copperfield and myself would frequently have taken a pull at them, if it had been feasible.

Charles Dickens and Music James T. Lightwood

When the earth wi 'the gowans o' July was dress'd;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various