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Stowe

stoʊ
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History writes on a tablet. She is surrounded by putti. A child at her feet, stowing block letters in a bin. A girl brings a baby to her. In the air, a putto carries the portrait medallion of Charles XII, King of Sweden. In the background to the right a couple walking towards a house. In the background on the left a man transporting a load with his two donkeys. Numbers have been placed next to parts of the presentation that probably refer to a legend. With an empty margin.
History writes on a tablet. She is surrounded by putti. A child at her feet, stowing block letters in a bin. A girl brings a baby to her. In the air, a putto carries the portrait medallion of Charles XII, King of Sweden. In the background to the right a couple walking towards a house. In the background on the left a man transporting a load with his two donkeys. Numbers have been placed next to parts of the presentation that probably refer to a legend. With an empty margin.
  1. (n) Stowe
    United States writer of a novel about slavery that advanced the abolitionists' cause (1811-1896)
Usage in the news

The Chan family of San Francisco rent some boats to explore Stow Lake Thursday July 22, 2010. sfgate.com

Daniel Stowe Botanical Garden . fae.org

Stow, Hudson, Norwayne, East Canton and Tuscarawas Catholic all high in state softball polls. ohio.com

This lets you charge any device, without having to stow spare cables. mensjournal.com

In a small black bag, Shawn Andrews stowed the evidence of his dual lives. nytimes.com

Kent State senior Michael Heller, a former Stow High School star, was named as an automatic qualifier for the 2012 NCAA Division I Men's Cross Country Championships, which will be held Saturday in Louisville, Ky. recordpub.com

"Please turn off and stow all wireless devices ". nbc24.com

Bryan Stow with his then-12-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter. msn.foxsports.com

Stow Creek man has head stomped by trespassers. nj.com

Lowest Gas Prices in Stow . motortrend.com

Speedway 4969 Fishcreek Rd Stow , OH, 44224. motortrend.com

Local Stow Club Dog Members. dogchannel.com

Anne, a 70-foot gaff-rigged schooner, was the platform for Stowe's just-ended trip as well as others. cruisingworld.com

Breast Implants a Bad Place to Stow Your Cocaine. nymag.com

Bryan Stow attends World Series game. insidebayarea.com

Usage in scientific papers

As discussed in the Appendix of S07, the soft X-ray background is high in the direction of A3627. S09 developed a method to constrain the local X-ray background with the stowed background.
Every BCG with a strong radio AGN has an X-ray cool core: is the cool core - noncool core dichotomy too simple?

Extrapolating from Stowe’s model, we have endowed COMPERE with the pervasive goal of completing an incomplete item at any level of processing.
Having Your Cake and Eating It Too: Autonomy and Interaction in a Model of Sentence Processing

Osgood and Stowe developed a common generalization of Nehari’s criteria, and others, involving the curvature of a metric.
Univalence Criteria for Lifts of Harmonic Mappings to Minimal Surfaces

Stowe, A generalization of Nehari’s univalence criterion, Comm.
Univalence Criteria for Lifts of Harmonic Mappings to Minimal Surfaces

A normalization factor of ∼ 1.05 was applied to the exposure of this “stowed background” data in order to match its 10-12 keV count rate with that of Obs. 1586.
Chandra and XMM-Newton Detection of Large-scale Diffuse X-ray Emission from the Sombrero Galaxy

Usage in literature

Where are we to stow these casks, Mr Fisher? "Diary in America, Series One" by Frederick Marryat (AKA Captain Marryat)

Stow it, I tell ye, or I'll throttle ye, by thunder! "The Island Treasure" by John Conroy Hutcheson

There, stowed away, was a large lump of grease. "Tales of the Sea" by W.H.G. Kingston

The men had cabins given them in which to live and stow their property. "Notable Voyagers" by W.H.G. Kingston and Henry Frith

These will all be collected and stowed under cover before we go to rest. "The Hunters' Feast" by Mayne Reid

Before this could be done, she had to be cleared of all sorts of articles stowed in her. "In the Wilds of Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston

Leaving the hunters to cut up the hippopotamus, and stow its flesh on board their canoes, we returned to where we had left Jan and the ox. "Adventures in Africa" by W.H.G. Kingston

As for considerin' where to stow you, that never crossed his head. "Shining Ferry" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Stowed, by Jove, right and tight, away. "The Book of Humorous Verse" by Various

Then we might have stowed ourselves away in the cabin as nice as could be, and have been just as dry as we are here. "Cast Away in the Cold" by Isaac I. Hayes

Usage in poetry
The pure and worthy Mrs. Stowe
Is one we all are proud to know
As mother, wife, and authoress-
Thank God, I am content with less!
Well, this is where the stuff I stow,
According to old Francois V;
But--once again before I blow--
You make an awful splash with me.
The bee, in well-fill'd honey cells,
Her sweets for us hath stow'd,
The crystal water in the wells,
For us from springs hath flow'd.
You won't meet any stranger's feäce,
But only naïghbours o' the pleäce,
An' Stowe, an' Combe; an' two or dree
Vrom uncle's up at Rookery.
Well now, I do hope we shall vind ye
Come soon, wi' your childern behind ye,
To Stowe, while o' bwoth zides o' hedges,
The zunsheen do glow in the zummer.
"For I loved that cook as a brother, I did,
And the cook he worshipped me;
But we'd both be blowed if we'd either be stowed
In the other chap's hold, you see.