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My flame, while it still burns steady, and not sowse it

Krindlesyke Wilfrid Wilson Gibson 1920

Of coorse I went sowse into the water, and had only time to give out one awful yell when the water shut me up.

The Battle and the Breeze 1859

You've seen a boy a slidin on a most beautiful smooth bit of ice, ha'nt you, larfin, and hoopin, and hallooin like one possessed, when presently sowse he goes in over head and ears?

The Clockmaker — or, the Sayings and Doings of Samuel Slick, of Slickville Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

You've seen a boy a-slidin 'on a most beautiful smooth bit of ice, hain't you, larfin', and hoopin ', and hallooin' like one possessed, when presently sowse he goes in over head and ears?

The Clockmaker Thomas Chandler Haliburton 1830

Again, _Berinthia_ incourages _Amanda_ to play the _Whore_; and then sowse upon _Don Quixot_, [Footnote: p. 74.] when there is not so much as one little tiny todpol of _Smut_, that I know of, unless he creates it -- Yet I am Crambo'd with, _who, with low, nauseous Bawdry fills his

Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) Thomas D'Urfey 1688

_ Those Gentlemen, Sir _Harry_, you're pleas'd to term scoundrels, I honour; he that takes sanctuary in the _Fleet_, has an immediate place in my Heart; the Heroes of the _Mint_ are a formidable Body, magnanimously sowse ev'ry Fellow in a Ditch that dares to infringe their Liberties; he that's committed to _Newgate_ is in a fair way to Immortality; -- He that stands in the Pillory is exalted to a very high Station; the Observator is my very good Friend; and he that writes the Review a Person of a most incomparable Assurance.

The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704

2.88.6: The stormy blastes her caue so sore did sowse:

"Songes and Sonettes written by the ryght honorable Lorde Henry Haward late Earle of Surrey, and other" 1557