Lexicographical Neighbors of Dorises
Literary usage of Dorises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs of Barras, Member of the Directorate by Paul Barras, George Duruy (1896)
"On hearing this rolling-off of names of fructi- dorises we all looked at one ...
You come and take up our time with the fructi- dorises, who are to all ..."
2. Discovery: Or, The Spirit and Service of Science by Richard Gregory (1916)
"... than three of these beautiful little creatures, these dorises," and he held
up a phial containing three scarcely visible little bladder-like animals. ..."
3. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"... since he sung in watery verses, and while himself abstaining from the joys of
wine, celebrated or abused dorises that were only of his imagining, ..."
4. Bibliomania: Or Book-madness; a Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin (1876)
"The Paradice of Dainty dorises, devised and written for the most part by M.
Edwardes, sometime of her Majestie's Chappell; the rest by sundry learned ..."
5. Sir Ralph Esher: Or, Adventures of a Gentleman of the Court of Charles II. by Leigh Hunt (1832)
"... like a nymph of the woods; and I should write verses to her, and make her my
serious passion, while I put lighter feathers into the caps of the dorises ..."
6. A Boy's Adventures in the Wilds of Australia: Or, Herbert's Note-book by William Howitt (1855)
"... as represented in the Idyls of Theocritus and the pastorals of the poets.
They have no chance of meeting with any dorises and " neat-handed ..."
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