Lexicographical Neighbors of Bovinely
Literary usage of Bovinely
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Public Health Protection by Henry Bixby Hemenway, Edwin Frederick Bowers, Mary Sewall Gardner (1916)
"Of course a woman who is by nature bovinely placid, whose facial muscles remain
perpetually quiescent because she has nothing ..."
2. England and the English from an American Point of View by Price Collier (1909)
"One may go far afield to find a more typical example of that characteristic of
the English of bovinely seeing duty where their interests call them. ..."
3. In and Out of Three Normandy Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd (1892)
"... the narrow streets and low houses with a late afternoon stream of color, was
the sole inhabitant who did not blink at us, bovinely, with dulled vision. ..."
4. World's War Events: Recorded by Statesmen, Commanders, Historians and by Men by Allen Leon Churchill (1919)
"... sweat with the grime of machinery and have fourteen shillings a week into the
bargain— if one is properly skilled and muscular and bovinely plodding. ..."
5. The Principles of Pragmatism: A Philosophical Interpretation of Experience by Henry Heath Bawden (1910)
"His mind is bovinely peaceful because he is too unconscious of ideals to be
discontent. The conceptions of self and society, as would be expected, ..."
6. The Amazing Interlude/the Street of Seven Stars by Mary Roberts Rinehart (2000)
"She was a large, almost bovinely placid person, not at all reminiscent of Anna.
She was neat where Anna had been disorderly, well dressed and breezy against ..."
7. To Ruhleben, and Back: A Great Adventure in Three Phases by Geoffrey Pyke (1916)
"So I laughed and asked them why, at which they all laughed also and stared bovinely
at each other over lapping cheeks, and laughed again. ..."
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