dooly

Example Sentences

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Show ’em a good scarecrow or tatty dooly, as the Scotch folk call it, and they’d think it was what they call a bunyip.”

From King o' the Beach A Tropic Tale by Greene, J. B.

"Justice of the peace," he said proudly, "dooly signed and registered in Dartmouth County, Mass."

From The Cruise of the Kawa by Chappell, George S. (George Shepard)

Sergeant Paton, of my company, picked him up, and put him into an empty dooly which was passing.

From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William

A prayer prayed proper, and prayed by them as ain't plaguein' the Lord constant about their souls an' other diseases, is always dooly regarded.

From The Definite Object A Romance of New York by Farnol, Jeffery

He had got out of his dooly, undressed and bareheaded as he was, and leaped into the saddle, as the syce had been leading his horse near him.

From Reminiscences of the Great Mutiny 1857-59 Including the relief, siege, and capture of Lucknow, and the campaigns in Rohilcund and Oude by Forbes-Mitchell, William