dido
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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 Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
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 Henham, Ernest G.
The Buffalo doth proudly prance, Whenever the hunters will give him a chance, And over the prairies he leads them a dance, Oh! fiddledy, diddledy, dido!
From Five Mice in a Mouse-trap by the Man in the Moon. by Ledyard, Addie
"If the brute had cut up such a dido under your bed, you would have been as 'turnal sceared as I was."
From Life in the Clearings versus the Bush by Moodie, Susanna
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 Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Oldsters worried at first that the children would indulge in more didoes than devotions, but they were soon impressed.
From Time Magazine Archive
Even Frenchmen who are tolerant of governmental didoes were disgusted.
From Time Magazine Archive
Plainly the people wanted no economic didoes, no flagrant change in the status quo.
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
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
Sir Alan Patrick Herbert, the humorist who finds parliamentary didos far from funny, was angrily shouting and waving his arms to rally the Opposition benches.
From Time Magazine Archive
San Francisco suspected that the Southern Pacific's rate-cutting didos might have something to do with the road's scheme to sell its ferry franchise to the State Toll Bridge Authority for some $3,750,000.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
