He no longer saw the cold northern sea under its great blue cloud-curtain that had shrouded the coming day; nor the line of fishing-smacks, beached high and dry, and their owners' dwellings near at hand, a little town of tar and timber in behind the stowage-huts of nets and tackle, nor the white escarpment of the cliffs beyond, that the sea had worked so many centuries to plunder from the rounded pastures of the sheep above.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan
The spot had been used for years by the fishermen as a sort of stowage place for their apparatus, and also, sometimes, as a summer residence.
"The Boy Aviators' Flight for a Fortune"
Wilbur Lawton
From his early childhood up, his mind had been a place of mechanical stowage.
"Dickens As an Educator"
James L. (James Laughlin) Hughes