And there's a pail of water and soap there by the doorway; it will do you no harm to dowse with it.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
Mr. Graves-the author of the popular "Father O'Flynn," perhaps the best of all his Irish songs-wrote for Punch "The Tea-Table Tragedy," "The Ballad of the Babes in the Wood," and those admirable "Lines of Farewell to the Irish Humorist, Baron dowse, on leaving the House of Commons"- "Dick dowse, Dick dowse, Is it lavin' the House?"
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann
dowse that glim on your fo'castle!
"A Victorious Union SERIES: The Blue and the Gray--Afloat"
Oliver Optic