Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorbugs
Literary usage of Dorbugs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Wit and Humor of America by Marshall Pinckney Wilder (1911)
"Countless numbers of dorbugs and winged creatures of every description had taken
occasion to come in. It was found that they were in every part of the house ..."
2. The Autobiography of Nathaniel Southgate Shaler by Nathaniel Southgate Shaler, Sophia Penn Page Shaler (1909)
"The room ia full of dorbugs; five already In the wash-basin by their own blundering,
so you may reckon the number. I wish I were home to-night, ..."
3. My Literary Passions, Criticism and Fiction by William Dean Howells (1910)
"bumbling of the dorbugs, that stole in along with the odors. I can see the
perspiration on the shining forehead of the bookbinder as he looks up from some ..."
4. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"... the size of these dorbugs—looking as if the General Court had been chewing
upon them. All gone now, and it won't cost a ten dollar bill to clean all up, ..."
5. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"And little wads lying about, the size of these dorbugs—looking as if the General
Court had been chewing upon them. All gone now, and it won't cost a ten ..."
6. A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1849)
"And little wads lying about, the size of these dorbugs—looking as if the General
Court had been chewing upon them. All gone now, and it won't cost a ten ..."
7. History of the Fifteenth Regiment, New Hampshire Volunteers, 1862-1863 by Charles McGregor (1899)
"dorbugs and baked beans a la Port Hudson." They were deserted now by human
inhabitants, and the writer of this remembers taking possession of one by right ..."
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