dixy
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dixies
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We had both clean forgotten the French for milk, and we’d left the dixy at the inn.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
P.S.—By the way, see what your French dixy says for doughnut, and let me know by return.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
They shelled us again next day and our tea dixy was hit; so that we didn't get any tea....
From Mr. Britling Sees It Through by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells
Not even when Jim looked it up in the dixy and asked for noix à pâté.
From Parkhurst Boys And Other Stories of School Life by Talbot Baines Reed
The dixies were then taken forward and the meal served out in equal shares according to the numbers to be provided for.
From The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula by Herbert Brayley Collett
However, when our cooks came out with "dixies" full of steaming tea, with bread and marmalade sandwiches, they soon became reconciled.
From The Emma Gees by Herbert Wes McBride
A little later dozens of fires would be crackling in the trenches, with dixies upon them full of stew or tea.
From With Manchesters in the East by Sir Gerald B. (Gerald Berkeley) Hurst
On a level space bordering the line a dozen or more fires were blazing merrily, and dixies with some boiling liquid were being carried backwards and forwards.
From The Red Horizon by Patrick MacGill
You can see me paying visits en surprise, all the cooks springing to attention and the very potatoes in the dixies trying to look as if they weren't doing anything wrong!
From Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 23, 1914 by Various
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