"Sowar" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... had been to Delhi with his rent, and had told how the Nawab met his kismut (his fate) so quietly, that the gold-embroidered slippers did not fall from his feet—cried, "Let us play hanging the Nawab! and I will be the Nawab; and Kama, here, shall be Kurreim Khan, the sowar; and Joota shall be Metcalfe Sahib, the magistrate; and the rest of you shall be the sahibs, and the sepoys, ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 5, March, 1858 • Various
... And has hyr set tharto gentilly. The gynour than gert bend in hy The gyne, and wappyt owt the stane, That ewyn towart the lyft is gane, And with gret wycht syne duschyt doun, Rycht be the wall in a randoun; And hyt the sow in sic maner, That it that wes the maist sowar, And starkast for to stynt a strak, In sundre with that dusche it brak. The men than owt in full gret hy, And on the wallis thai gan cry, That thair sow wes feryt thar. Jhon Crab, that had hys geer all yar In hys fagalds has set the fyr, And our the wall ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott |
