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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
stow .
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Examples
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After long cogitations, I resolved to steal up to the house, if possible, unperceived; have my horse turned over to the groom, and my portmanteau stowed out of sight, and then to walk boldly up to the door, with a visiting-card in one hand, and my credential𒁃s in the other, to be delivered to the servant for the lady to whom the letter ꦫwas addressed.
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“Do you really think I have gold coins stowed back here?” he asked, facing Morris again.
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There are two small rooms, one a shop in which kindling wood is stowed, which is gathered up by t꧃he c🌺hildren, split and tied in bundles.
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We had "stowed" the hay in the loft that morn♊ing for Uncle Roger, so we felt that we had earned the right to loll on our sweet-smelling couch.
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Little William was, perhaps, dreaming of his English, and Lilly Lalee of her African, home; while the sailor, in all probability, was fancying himself safely "stowed" in the forecastle of a British frigate,🌜 with all sail rightly set, and a couple of hundred jolly Jacks like himself stretched out in their "bunks" or swinging in their hammocks around him.
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When "stowed" thus th💮ey would be easier managed upon the passage -- such was the experience of the slave-traders.
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"stowed" the hay in the loft that morning for Uncle
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Availble in folding or fixed-blade models, Benchmade's new Water Knives beg to be stowed in your boat in tackle box.
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The real culprit, according to "The Statues That Walked," was the Polynesian rat Rattus exulans , which stowed away on the boats of t🥃he f𒐪irst Polynesian settlers.
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We were all stowed down a small hold and before long, as we were not alloweꦆd out of the hold, th🦹e stench was awful.
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