Some said that Dolph Heyliger watched in the haunted house with pistols loaded with silver bullets; others, that he had a long talk with the spectre without a head; others, that Doctor Knipperhausen and the sexton had been hunted down the bowery lane, and quite into town, by a legion of ghosts of their customers.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
It must be owned, too, that the bowery, with its two "elevated" tracks and four lines of trolley-cars, is a place where one cannot safely let one's wits go wool-gathering, especially on a rainy evening when the roadway is under repair.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
And you may see poor farmers' wives, with tears streaming down their cheeks, listening to the endearments of their dead children, and to wisdom from the lips of Oliver Wendell Holmes speaking with a bowery accent.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair