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Dowie is a surname, and may refer to:
- Bob Dowie, British football coach
- Freda Dowie, British actress
- Iain Dowie, former professional football player
- John Dowie (disambiguation), various people with this name
- Ménie Muriel Dowie (1867—1945), British writer
- William James Dowie (1969- ), American folk hero and liberal political activist.
Usage examples of "dowie".
The cousin whose husband had been killed in Belgium, leaving a young widow and two children scarcely younger and more helpless than herself, had no relation nearer than Dowie, and had sent forth to the good woman a frantic wail for help in her desolation.
Sometimes she had taken Dowie away on little holidays to the sea side, often she spent hours in picture galleries or great libraries or museums.
In attendance on the Duchess she had learned to know all the wonders and picturesqueness of her London and its environments, and often with Dowie as her companion she wandered about curious and delightful places and, pleased as a child, looked in at her kind at work or play.
If I can manage to send her old nurse Dowie with her she will stand guard over her like an old shepherd.
Henrietta and he had the good sense to treat Dowie as if she were her mother.
He asked Dowie if she objected to his coming to see her niece and bringing toys to the children.
And from first to last he kept before Dowie the one thing which held the strongest appeal.
And at a time such as this Dowie would have known she was one to be treated with great delicacy and tender reserve.
She would outwardly be affectionate, pretty-mannered Miss Robin just as Dowie herself would give all her strength to trying to seem to be nothing and nobody but Dowie.
Robin, seeming to gaze out at the sodden heath, did not really see it because she was thinking of Dowie who sat silently by her side.
They had talked very little in the train though Dowie had been tenderly careful and kind.
Robin had thought that it looked as if Dowie might suddenly have broken down if she would have allowed herself but she would not allow herself.
He found that the smallness of her appetite presented to Dowie a grave problem.
She turned and spoke and Dowie saw that intuition had told her what had been talked about.
Once she sat thus so long that Dowie crept out of the empty stone chamber where she had been waiting and went and stood behind her.