dido
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Three times that night she woke in the bed with her curl-papers crackling for very fright; and the fourth time 'twas at the sound of a real dido below stairs.
From News from the Duchy by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Perhaps you don't think she means it when she goes to every 'tea' and 'recital' and 'at home' and crazy dido from here to Beersheba and back.
From Cap'n Dan's Daughter by Joseph Crosby Lincoln
I shouldn't have cut such an everlasting dido if he hadn't been monkeying around.
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
We'll go there together, Dave, and cut a dido.'
From Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion by Ernest G. Henham
That would be a pretty dido, I must say!
From The Girls of Central High on Lake Luna or, The Crew That Won by Gertrude W. Morrison
Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo.
From Time Magazine Archive
A puerile play, relating the didoes in an Adirondack hunting lodge, when a gentleman crook poses to a house party as its owner and the real owner is arrested.
From Time Magazine Archive
Meat repeated the same didoes as of last July.
From Time Magazine Archive
Despite his misgivings about its didoes, he is fantastically proud of the city, and works 14 hours a day at his trying job.
From Time Magazine Archive
Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
Old Johnson fans needed no explanation of such zany didos; Johnson was simply dramatizing his crusade against folks who eat popcorn In theaters.
From Time Magazine Archive
As always, Arlene's personal didos were gay, frolicsome and deceptively casual.
From Time Magazine Archive
For such didos he won the somewhat dubious title of "The King of Glory."
From Time Magazine Archive
Fibber's garrulous tarradiddles, the broguish comeuppances Molly metes out to him, the dated didos of his numerous stooges, are as familiar as the pattern of the living-room rug.
From Time Magazine Archive
So I just stood there with monkeys, dollars, ponies, and .22s running around in my head, and waited while Grandpa cut all kinds of didos.
From "Summer of the Monkeys" by Wilson Rawls
