bow-ow-ow

Updated: May 8, 2025

were forced to be sung, "And bow-wow-wow, And bow-ow-ow," and so on until bass, treble, alto, counter, and tenor had bow-wowed for about twenty seconds; yet I doubt if the simple hearts that sung ever saw the absurdity. It is impossible while speaking of fuguing to pass over an extraordinary element of the choir called "singing counter."

Alice Morse Earle - Sabbath in Puritan New England

Away she went to meet him and she fearlessly dashed across the dog's path. "Bow-ow-ow," he fairly yelled as he bounded after Molly, but she kept just beyond his reach and led him where the million daggers struck fast and deep, till his tender ears were scratched raw, and guided him at last plump into a hidden barbed-wire fence, where he got such a gashing that he went homeward howling with pain.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Lobo, Rag and Vixen: Being The Personal Histories Of Lobo, Redruff, Raggylug & Vixen

Away she went to meet him and she fearlessly dashed across the dog's path. "Bow-ow-ow," he fairly yelled as he bounded after Molly, but she kept just beyond his reach and led him where the million daggers struck fast and deep, till his tender ears were scratched raw, and guided him at last plump into a hidden barbed-wire fence, where he got such a gashing that he went homeward howling with pain.

Ernest Thompson Seton - Wild Animals I Have Known