doggeries
- plural of doggery.
Example Sentences
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That is why every sailor in the world, outside the doggeries of Hamburg, felt his calling spat upon and his personal pride injured by the sinking of the Lusitania—by a sailor.
From Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Raemaekers, Louis
A hound gave tongue responsively among the heaped mews and doggeries beneath the ramparts.
From Red Axe by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Be busy, ye Cossack doggeries; return with news, not with mere grime and marks of blood on your mouths!
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 18 by Carlyle, Thomas
These floaters registered "from dives, and doggeries, from coal bins and water closets; no space was too small to harbor a man."
From The Boss and the Machine; a chronicle of the politicians and party organization by Orth, Samuel Peter
Hautcharmoi, quitting the Frontier Towns, has joined, raising him to 15,000; and Nassau is giving excellent account of the multitudinous Pandour doggeries there; and will retake Kosel, and have Upper Silesia swept before very long.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 15 by Carlyle, Thomas
