Lexicographical Neighbors of Dottels
Literary usage of Dottels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle (1900)
"... and smoking his before-breakfast pipe, which was composed of all the plugs
and dottels left from his smokes of the day before, all carefully dried and ..."
2. Hail Columbia!: Random Impressions of a Conservative English Radical by Walter Lionel George (1921)
"... masses of dusty papers, six weeks' torn issues on the floor, mixed with the
dottels of pipes and hundreds of cigarette stubs. Everybody bellows. ..."
3. Hail Columbia!: Random Impressions of a Conservative English Radical by Walter Lionel George (1921)
"... the knives of generations, masses of dusty papers, six weeks' torn issues on
the floor, mixed with the dottels of pipes and hundreds of cigarette stubs. ..."
4. In the Ranks of the C.I.V.: A Narrative and Diary of Personal Experiences by Erskine Childers (1900)
"... 'baccy has been very scarce, and you see fellows picking the wet dottels out
of the bottoms of their pipes and drying them in the sun for future use. ..."
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