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Usage examples of "cowle".

The cowle was generous, surprisingly generous, and he was tempted to accept because no man would die if he took the terms.

The estate was purchased by Hieronymus Cowle, an eccentric from a local mill-owning family who had made a second fortune in railways.

I've been in service here one way or another for nearly fifty years, since I left school, for your uncle, his business, the army and the Cowle family.

The cowled man riding on his right made a tiny gesture, and the warlord's words rang out like a trumpet into every man's ear, across his entire army.

Bloodblade watched, fury falling away to a faint feeling of sickness, as here and there throughout the host, he saw other robed, cowled figures grasping other warriors.

Other such corpses toppled or were let sag to the ground as the cowled men withdrew their hands—and Bloodblade saw fangs protruding from the fingertips of some of those hands.

At about that time it dawned on most of them, as the hissing continued above their heads and darkness receded, that all, or almost all, of the robed and cowled figures riding with them had crowded aboard for the first crossing.

Even without such evidence, he certainly looked the way Satan might, with his cowled brow and the twist of asymmetrical horns and the script drawn upon his flesh.

Finally, where an enormously high peaked entrance was clothed in soft folds of rich black velvet, the cowled swordsman pulled up.

After the moving queue of linsey-woolsey clad servitors came four cowled guards, yawning and idly slapping their bare thighs with their whips.

Twenty-four-year-old Dwight Welles was senior computer tech for all of Dream Park, a man whose four-poster at Cowles Modular saw him far less than his cot at Research and Development.