Lexicographical Neighbors of Dodgings
Literary usage of Dodgings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... or Kensington ; And, after all her wiles and dodgings, She slipp'd clear off,
and bilk'd her lodgings. Jaded, and almost in despair, -" Who would seek ..."
2. The Harvard Classics by Charles William Eliot (1909)
"... of money-making with all their scorching days and icy nights and all their
stifling deceits and underhanded dodgings, or infinitesimals of parlors, ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1863)
"... his heavy trials, which he strove to make light of; his " moving accidents by
flood and field ; " his illnesses and continual dodgings of death, ..."
4. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1879)
"Perks suit the sea-side harpy, apt at dodgings, Whose victims are not suited with
their lodgings. Long holidays and tips just suit " our boys, ..."
5. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1863)
"... his 'moving accidents by flood and field;' his illnesses and continual dodgings
of death, soon began, and followed each other with increasing frequence. ..."
6. Thomas Carlyle: A History of His Life in London, 1834-1881 by James Anthony Froude (1884)
"... I have sad fighting with the quasi-infernal ingredient—the railway whistle,
namely—and have my difficulties and dodgings to obtain enough of sleep. ..."
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