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Definition of Dogberries
1. dogberry [n] - See also: dogberry
Lexicographical Neighbors of Dogberries
Literary usage of Dogberries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Capital: A Critique of Political Economy by Karl Marx (1906)
"This judgment was given not by the "Great Unpaid," the provincial dogberries,
but by one of the highest courts of justice in London. ..."
2. Publications by Shakespeare Society (Great Britain) (1844)
"It illustrate* Shakespeare in this manner: it gives us a curious account of the
proceedings of the dogberries of that day for the arrest of suspected ..."
3. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1844)
"... were " missing" on the 10th August, and to arrest whom the dogberries of
Enfield were upon the watch, all the means of identification they apparently ..."
4. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"have found in England, to love and to laugh at, and to preserve the love and
laughter of all times, the dogberries, the Bottoms ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... dogberries and Verges; and in the most quiet neighborhoods it still remains
true that adventures are to the adventurous. That this dictum was verified ..."
6. Punch by Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman (1883)
"... by Parochial dogberries, who were dressed in white great coats, and called
The Saxon English of those days was of the purest character : for example, ..."
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