"Dor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... sentire le sue notizzie io non posso venire perche mia madre e amalata e mia sorella Enrica era tardato ascirvere perche mi credevo che tesano mellio ma invece sono sempre auguale perche volevo venire ci mando dici mille baci e una setta dimano addio al Signior D. Dor. ...
— Alone • Norman Douglas
... Thaigin, containing a spacious palace with a fine hall, in which there are portraits of all the famous kings who have reigned in this country. This castle and palace are said to have been built by a king named Dor, who was very powerful, and was only attended on by great numbers of young damsels, who used to carry him about the castle in a small light chariot. Confiding in the strength of this castle, which he believed impregnable, Dor rebelled against Umcan, to whom he was tributary. ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. 1 • Robert Kerr
... looked about her, to see what had befallen Epimetheus. The thunder-cloud had so darkened the room that she could not very clearly discern what was in it. But she heard a disagreeable buzzing, as if a great many huge flies, or gigantic mosquitoes, or those insects which we call dor-bugs and pinching-dogs, were darting about. And, as her eyes grew more accustomed to the imperfect light, she saw a crowd of ugly little shapes, with bats' wings, looking abominably spiteful, and armed with terribly long stings in their tails. It ...
— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry
... buggy ride in the country, ain't he? Good ole Tor'dor!" he quavered loudly, clutching Corliss's shoulder. "How much you s'pose he pays f' that buzz-buggy by the day, jeli'm'n? Naughty Tor'dor, stole thousand dollars from me—makin' presents—diamond cresses. Tor'dor, I hear you been playing cards. Tha's sn't nice. Tor'dor, you're ...
— The Flirt • Booth Tarkington
... been holding a conference with the Wizard, and later with Tik-Tok, whom the magic of the Wizard had quickly transported to Ozma's palace. Tik-Tok had only words of praise for Betsy Bobbin, "who," he said, "is al-most as nice as Dor-o-thy her-self." ...
— Tik-Tok of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... was no snow but a frost, and there was a long bar of saffron below the cold sky and a round red ball of a sun. Hugh was sitting in a corner of Mr. Lasher's study, looking at Dor's "Don Quixote," when the two gentlemen came in. He was sitting in a dark corner and they, because they were angry with one another, did not recognise any one except themselves. Mr. Lasher pulled furiously at his pipe and Mr. Pidgen stood up by the fire with ...
— The Golden Scarecrow • Hugh Walpole
... thus much toward entertainment and courtesy, but of the last he makes more use, for, by the recital of my lord, he conjures his poor countrymen. But this is not his element; he must home again, being like a dor, that ends his flight in ...
— Character Writings of the 17th Century • Various
... Yn morio yn erbyn mawr-wynt,— Mor yn dygyfor, a'r gwynt Wnai'r hwyliau'n ddarnau'n ei ddig, A'r llyw ydoedd ddrylliedig; Mynedyddion mwyn doddynt, Eu gwaedd a glywid drwy'r gwynt; Llef irad a llygad lli, Y galon ddewra'n gwelwi; Anobaith do'i wynebau, Ac ofn dor y gwyllt-for gau, Gwynnodd pob gwep gan gynni,— Llewygent,—crynent rhag cri Gwylan ar ben'r hwylbren rhydd, "Ysturmant yr ystormydd!" A mawrwych galon morwr, Llawn o dan, droai'n llyn dwr; Llw fu'n hawdd, droe'n llefain O! A ...
— Gwaith Alun • Alun |
