Lexicographical Neighbors of Dobsons
Literary usage of Dobsons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Fresh-water Biology by Henry Baldwin Ward, George Chandler Whipple (1918)
"dobsons, FISH FLIES, SPONGILLA FLIES (Order N euro pier a) But two families of
this great and heterogeneous order, as now commonly restricted, are aquatic, ..."
2. Stories of Insect Life by Clarence Moores Weed (1903)
"At long intervals the dobsons moult. Apparently they only shed their skins about six
... The dobsons prefer to live in the rapids of rivers and creeks, ..."
3. The Mystery of Hartley House by Clifford Samuel Raymond, George H. Doran Company (1918)
"Then the dobsons lived here in a simple fashion. ... A lot of generations of
dobsons lived here. There was always a Dobson family in the house, ..."
4. The Insect Book: A Popular Account of the Bees, Wasps, Ants, Grasshoppers by Leland Ossian Howard (1905)
"... collected the names in use in Rhode Island alone for this insect, and they
are sufficiently interesting to be repeated. They are : dobsons, crawlers, ..."
5. The Argosy by Mrs Henry Wood, Henry Wood, Charles William Wood (1889)
"If you think so little of the dobsons I wonder you married one of them! ...
We dobsons may be a very inferior, vulgar race, but thank goodness we have not ..."
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