"Bowl over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... That's the young soldier speaking. What for? You might bowl over a horse or two, but what good would that do? You've done what you wanted, and sent 'em to the right-about, saved six of our lads, and at the same time showed those fellows that we're on the lookout and don't mean to stand any nonsense. That's enough ...
— The Young Castellan - A Tale of the English Civil War • George Manville Fenn
... Irishman's invention. This nocturne is called a forerunner to the Chopin nocturnes. They are really imitations of Field's, without the blithe, dewy sweetness of the Irishman's. First, let me put out the lamps. There is a moon that is suspended like a silver bowl over the Wissahickon. It is the ...
— Old Fogy - His Musical Opinions and Grotesques • James Huneker |
