Example Sentences

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All this time the red-head cook had been stowing away his housekeeping, exactly three times as fast as you would expect three men to do it.

From Stepsons of Light by Rhodes, Eugene Manlove

For some days past he had been stowing away fragments from his scanty meals in his pockets.

From Army Boys on the Firing Line or, Holding Back the German Drive by Randall, Homer

The first thing that met my eyes, was the toe of a boot sticking out of the pipe-clay—where we had been stowing it away, in the worked-out part of the shaft.

From Lost Lenore The Adventures of a Rolling Stone by Beach, Charles A.