Example Sentences

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There are workshops hereabout in which one may mingle one's copious sweat with the grime of machinery and have fourteen shillings a week into the bargain—if one is properly skilled and muscular and bovinely plodding.

From World's War Events, Vol. I by Reynolds, Francis J. (Francis Joseph)

Stephen had been a good sort of a fellow, a bit slow and plodding, perhaps, bovinely content to dwell within the hills, never hearkening or responding to the lure of the beyond.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

She was a large, almost bovinely placid person, not at all reminiscent of Anna.

From The Street of Seven Stars by Rinehart, Mary Roberts

The sun alone, shining with spendthrift glory, flooding the narrow streets and low houses with a late afternoon stream of color, was the sole inhabitant who did not blink at us, bovinely, with dulled vision.

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Dodd, Anna Bowman