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Definition of Donships
1. donship [n] - See also: donship
Lexicographical Neighbors of Donships
Literary usage of Donships
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Collections of the New York Historical Society for the Year by New-York Historical Society (1885)
"Keep firm our first hold, and you will soon see a body of troops that their
donships will never be able to look at without blinking. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1879)
"... in order to guard against accidents and to “torture their donships for a day
or two.” The moral of this story of Cervantes it is not easy to perceive. ..."
3. Bell's British Theatre by John Bell (1797)
"While the proud Spaniards read old annals o'er, And on the leaves in lazy safety
pore, Essex and Raleigh thunder on their shore; Again their donships start ..."
4. The Rambler in Mexico: MDCCCXXXIV by Charles Joseph Latrobe (1836)
"We also hired an orderly to wait upon our donships; and set to work to make such
preparations for our journey into the interior, as were in our power, ..."
5. The United Service (1885)
"By way of further diversion in their nightly vigils, and, perhaps, to unlimber
the muscles of benumbed fingers, their donships had made a target of another ..."
6. The Kemble Papers by Stephen Kemble, Sir Henry Clinton, Daniel Jones, William Howe Howe (1885)
"Keep firm our first hold, and you will soon see a body of troops that their
donships will never be able to look at without blinking. ..."
7. The Modern British Drama: In Five Volumes by Sir Walter Scott, Walter Scott (1811)
"... Essex and Raleigh thunder on their shore ; Again their donships start and mend
their speed, With the same fear of their forefathers dead. ..."
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