gowan

How to use gowan in a sentence

• Stephen Gowans supposed that the bodies of Adam and Eve were clothed in robes of light, which vanished after their sin.

  Passages From The American Notebooks, Volume 1 | Nathaniel Hawthorne

• The wild columbines are coming into beauty; some of the gowans fading.

  Journals of Dorothy Wordsworth, Vol. I (of 2) | Dorothy Wordsworth

• Ay, it is the Gowans and the Laverock that you will like best.

  The Three Perils of Man, Vol. 3 (of 3) | James Hogg

• My father was dead; the fields had passed into other hands; but perhaps the red-tipped gowans were left.

  The Portent and Other Stories | George MacDonald

• To Naseby he went in 1842, in company with Dr. Arnold, and 'plucked two gowans and a cowslip from the burial heaps of the slain'.

  Victorian Worthies | George Henry Blore