"Doxy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... use for preliminary to a hot engagement. Messer Dante has written a very beautiful book on his business, its words all fire and golden air, but I wrote my rhymes in a tavern with red wine at my elbow and a doxy on my knee. I wonder which of us ...
— The God of Love • Justin Huntly McCarthy
... BETTY DOXY, Captain Macheath says to her, "Do you drink as hard as ever? You had better stick to good wholesome beer; for, in troth, Betty, strong waters will in time ruin your constitution. You should ...
— Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol 1 - A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook • The Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D.
... thet folks 'ould like Their pol'tics done ag'in by proxy, Give their noo loves the bag an' strike A fresh trade with their reg'lar doxy; But the drag 's broke, now slavery 's gone, An' there 's gret resk they 'll blunder on, Ef they ain't ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 • Various
... With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in the ...
— English Songs and Ballads • Various
... peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why then comes in the sweet o' the year; For the red blood reigns in ...
— On the Art of Writing - Lectures delivered in the University of Cambridge 1913-1914 • Arthur Quiller-Couch |
