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Definition of Dogships
1. dogship [n] - See also: dogship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogships
Literary usage of Dogships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Central Africa: Naked Truths of Naked People. An Account of Expeditions to by Charles Chaillé-Long (1876)
"I had arranged a mosquito net to protect them, but their dogships, as well as
myself, broke from this useless cover; they to rush madly up ..."
2. Sketches of Foreign Travel: And Life at Sea; Including a Cruise on Board a by Charles Rockwell (1842)
"The vagabond auctioneer was holding up their little dogships as high as he could
reach, and shouting rapidly, and at the top of his voice, the successive ..."
3. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"They will find their dogships in the grasp of the Numidian lion. Yet they can "
cut him off." They can vote him " guilty of breach of solemn covenant. ..."
4. A Collection from the Newspaper Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1847)
"They will find their dogships in the grasp of the Numidian lion. Yet they can "
cut him off." They can vote him " guilty of breach of solemn covenant. ..."
5. A Collection from the Miscellaneous Writings of Nathaniel Peabody Rogers by Nathaniel Peabody Rogers (1849)
"They will find their dogships in the grasp of the Numidian lion. Yet they can "
cut him off." They can vote him " guilty of breach of solemn covenant. ..."
6. More Pages from the Day-book of Bethia Hardacre by Ella Fuller Maitland (1907)
"dogs win the reward of their fidelity here, you encounter my spaniels - gentle,
I pray you of your courtesy to treat their little dogships with kindness. ..."
7. A Sailor of King George: The Journals of Captain Frederick Hoffman, R. N by Frederick W. Hoffman (1901)
"After coffee we took leave of our eccentric but warm-hearted host, who, on shaking
hands, insisted on our bloody dogships dining with him once more before ..."
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