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Definition of Sundowns
1. sundown [v] - See also: sundown
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sundowns
Literary usage of Sundowns
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"The sundowns and Takos who live on the mainland from Port Houghton to the Tako
Kiver.' Ш. A/. ..."
2. Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa: Being a Journal of an by Heinrich Barth (1859)
"Yet th-. ground was not quite barren, and was even sprinkled with violet- hero
and there, the surface being undulating, not unlike the sundowns of ..."
3. My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir (1911)
"And the dawns and sunrises and sundowns of these mountain days, — the rose light
creeping higher among the stars, changing to daffodil yellow, ..."
4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"[US] Young faces of those days seemed as sweet and winning under wide-brimmed
sundowns or old-time "pokes" as ever did those that have laughed beneath a ..."
5. British Poets of the Nineteenth Century: Selections from Wordsworth by Curtis Hidden Page (1904)
"... aiid ridden : but we Strike out from the shore as the heart in us bids and
beseeches, athirst for the foam. 1884. THE sundowns SPRAY of song that ..."
6. Alaska, and Missions on the North Pacific Coast by Sheldon Jackson (1880)
"The Awks, who live along Douglas' Channel and near the mouth of the Tahko River.
They have a bad reputation, and number about 800. "The sundowns and ..."
7. Pennsylvania School Journal by Pennsylvania Dept. of Public Instruction, Pennsylvania State Education Association, Pennsylvania Dept. of Common Schools (1875)
"Instead of study and books girls are selecting and trimming sundowns and gypsies,
looping up dresses and buying baskets in which to gather wild flowers from ..."
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