Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowals
Literary usage of Cowals
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Hakluytus Posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"Wee in vaine searched each bush and place about our house, and I went to call
the cowals (or Waiters) who every night till this, kept watch in a Balley ..."
2. Hakluytus posthumus or Purchas his pilgrimes: Contayning a History of the by Samuel Purchas (1905)
"... searched each bush and place about our house, and I went to call the cowals
... to find the murtherer: Master Nichols charged the cowals to bee actors, ..."
3. The Grameid: An Heroic Poem Descriptive of the Campaign of Viscount Dundee by James Philip, Alexander Murdoch (1888)
"... cowals,4 and Gibbons,5 barbarous names at which the Latin Muse shudders, nor
is it worth while to hand down to future fame, or to record, ..."
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