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  • appear as exact as ​Sappho's lines, but I had in mind the "longshore" or "dory" fisherman, who returns at nightfall. 253. V. Goldsmith, the song in The...
    511 bytes (4,736 words) - 16:23, 30 December 2020
  • the boat tells me what followed. I came back to consciousness in a small dory, afloat on the Bay, with but one thought in my mind—to save the girl. How...
    17 KB (3,162 words) - 09:12, 16 February 2018
  • he calls the mulus, and which, from the description, must probably be the dory. It was also considered a luxury to have them alive, it being an amusing...
    481 bytes (3,436 words) - 16:17, 3 January 2022
  • shore, and behold, the Ailouros nosing around Bird Rock. I went over in the dory and got her; she'd caught her anchor in a ledge and was neatly moored. I...
    412 bytes (2,634 words) - 10:48, 27 June 2023
  • that every bit of Itchiness went out of his skin, that he felt all hunky-dory there, and that he was even game for a handicap race back to shore. Back...
    399 bytes (3,872 words) - 07:42, 11 December 2016
  • painted dory with white canvas upholstering on the seats. Poggioli's heart sank as he saw his companions hurry down the steps of the pier to the dory. Everything...
    112 KB (19,632 words) - 17:47, 16 January 2022
  • dor′ti, adj. (Scot.), pettish: delicate. Dory, dō′ri, n. a fish of a golden-yellow colour.—Also John Dory and Doree. [Fr. dorée, from dorer, to gild—L...
    87 KB (12,623 words) - 12:40, 11 July 2022
  • the fact in those above-named communities characterized by monogamy. In Dory there are no chiefs; among the Dyaks subordination to chiefs is feeble; the...
    852 bytes (6,254 words) - 08:01, 2 October 2018
  • this gourmand stanza through? -- "Soupe à la Beauveau," whose relief was dory, Relieved itself by pork, for greater glory.      LXIV But I must crowd all...
    38 KB (6,268 words) - 17:03, 3 March 2022
  • if we free ourselves from the past in this life, everything will be hunky-dory, full of lightness and sweetness. It is all romantic hogwash, sheer unadulterated...
    56 KB (10,371 words) - 16:10, 30 May 2011
  • I've got to dig new holds. If this danged ice wasn't so melty we'd be hunky-dory." Holding the few pounds of strain necessary for Smoke with his left hand...
    35 KB (6,571 words) - 20:29, 26 June 2024
  • remainder of the day. A net set across the stream supplied us with a number of dory and inconnu, while its banks furnished wild onions in abundance. On the 24th...
    291 bytes (5,792 words) - 03:01, 25 January 2013
  • Here, with the aid of a pocket flash he had brought, he selected a fishing dory that seemed cleaner and lighter than the other boats about it. With pulses...
    101 KB (18,144 words) - 12:23, 27 January 2023
  • of the old man, if his father had a boat. The lad said there was an old dory at the horse range further up the coast, buried in the sand. When the boy...
    378 bytes (6,370 words) - 13:23, 14 June 2014
  • railway centre, with large iron and steel forges, and a number of breweries. Dory, John, the hero of an old ballad. Do-the-Boys'-Hall, a scholastic establishment...
    257 KB (39,246 words) - 17:19, 11 April 2024
  • crown-piece, was taken in a Shrimp-net on May 18th, 1897. Local, "Johnny Dory." Sparus niger. Ray's Bream. A.—Has been cast ashore during rough weather...
    833 bytes (10,918 words) - 10:04, 12 November 2022
  • Trygvas., cap. 225. Herverar Saga, cap. xi Yajur-Veda, iii. 57. Otfr. Müller, Dorier, i. p. 285. Strabo, xiii. i. Ælian, Hist. Animal, xii. 15. Isa. xxxvii....
    487 bytes (5,113 words) - 16:01, 13 June 2024
  • tossed their other claws about like limbs that did not belong to them. “John-dories came tripping;  Dull hake by their skipping     To frisk it seem’d given;...
    295 bytes (6,353 words) - 17:40, 13 June 2024
  • doings whenever he was in port; spending hours at night by the wharves with a dory in readiness when he saw lights in the Curwen warehouses, and following the...
    191 bytes (12,572 words) - 23:07, 30 October 2022
  • shapes that dove off quick soon's the moon riz? "Obed an' the folks was in a dory, but them shapes dove off the far side into the deep water an' never come...
    441 bytes (27,144 words) - 01:46, 18 November 2015
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