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
"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 Susanna Moodie
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
When I seed him hangin' there I cut a dido and kep' screamin', 'Miss Gusta, he's a-dyin',' and them Fed'rals got plumb tickled at me.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
Nevertheless, the committee could still be expected to cut didoes.
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
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
Our youngest uncle, Billy, was not old enough to join in their didoes.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
For such didos he won the somewhat dubious title of "The King of Glory."
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
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
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
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
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