If a feller was so lame he had to be carried up himself, I don't believe on my soul, the whole gang of them, from the Butler that dresses in the same clothes as his master, to Boots that ain't dressed at all, could make out to bowse him up stairs, upon my soul I don't.
"The Attache or, Sam Slick in England, Complete"
Thomas Chandler Haliburton
Good evening, my mumpers; make your bows to this gentleman who has come to bowse with us to-night.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Just bowse it up to wind'ard as far as it will go, and let us see what it will do."
"The Log of a Privateersman"
Harry Collingwood