"Dor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... DOR. Indeed, Mr. Jourdain, I was very impatient to see you. You are the man I esteem most in the world, and I was talking of you again this very morning at the ...
— The Shopkeeper Turned Gentleman - (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme) • Moliere (Poquelin)
... missionary societies. There was a harmonium at one end—on the level floor—a raised dais or platform at the other, and a gallery above for the servants, gardeners, and coachmen. It was heated with hot-water pipes, and hung with Dor's pictures, though these latter were soon removed and stored out of sight in the attics as being too unspiritual. In polished, shiny wood, it was a representation in miniature of that poky exclusive Heaven he took about with him, ...
— The Damned • Algernon Blackwood
... en chinois tcheou-tse; les mandchous, n'ayant point de mots pour dire tafetas, ont transcrit les sons chinois par tchous. Le bambou se dit tchou-tze; ils ont crit l'arbre (moo) tchous. Un titre de noblesse crit sur du papier dor s'appelle ts[)e]; les mandchous crivent tche. Je pourrais vous citer un nombre considrable de mots du mme genre, qui ne prouvent pas du tout l'identit ...
— Chips from a German Workshop - Volume IV - Essays chiefly on the Science of Language • Max Muller
... Passing the outer line of her domains; Daring to come, with their invading eyes, Where never mortals else had looked and lived. He told,—and here he glanced, upon his friends, Eyes of bright scorn—how the imperious ship Passed safely Tug and Dor, though all the guards Shot barbs of ice, and filled the air with fine, Invisible needles, piercing their pained flesh, And tore their stiffening sails with sharp-teethed winds; How, still, the ship pressed on where He kept watch, Ready ...
— The Arctic Queen • Unknown
... burning day of June! Soft darkness o'er its latest gleams is stealing; The buzzing dor-hawk, round and round, is wheeling,— That solitary bird Is all that can be heard [1] 5 In silence deeper far ...
— The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol. III • William Wordsworth
... name the Lady Hermione. Some part of these exaggerations had been communicated to the worthy Scotsman by Jenkin Vincent, who was well experienced in the species of wit which has been long a favourite in the city, under the names of cross-biting, giving the dor, bamboozling, cramming, hoaxing, humbugging, and quizzing; for which sport Richie Moniplies, with his solemn gravity, totally unapprehensive of a joke, and his natural propensity to the marvellous, formed an admirable ...
— The Fortunes of Nigel • Sir Walter Scott
... man's mother should come to him smilingly, with soft hands, with wisdom and comfort passing that of life, she came with terrible empty eyes. He could see her gaunt profile, her black brows. She was like an engraving he had once seen of the witch Saul had used at En-dor, to call up Samuel, who was dead. She had the same awful majesty, the same ...
— The Wind Bloweth • Brian Oswald Donn-Byrne
... DOR. Ah, Marquis, continually we find tedious people interrupting the course of our pleasures! You see me enraged on account of a splendid hunt, which a booby ... It is a story I must relate ...
— The Bores • Moliere |
