dog's-ear
noun
dog's-eared
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a word derived from
dog's-ear.
Example Sentences
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I fumbled in the pocket of my torn jacket and handed him a greasy, dog's-eared mass of paper.
From The Belovéd Vagabond by William John Locke
His Seasons have always been popular; and, when Coleridge found a well-thumbed and thickly dog’s-eared copy lying on the window-sill of a country inn, he exclaimed “This is true fame!”
From A Brief History of the English Language and Literature, Vol. 2 by John Miller Dow Meiklejohn
For five seconds the three men turned the limp, dog's-eared pages until they had found the place.
From The Education of Eric Lane by Stephen McKenna
Then she was given a very much "dog's-eared" spelling-book to study down a column.
From A Little Girl in Old Salem by Amanda Minnie Douglas
And there, sure enough, filling plump the dog's-eared page, was a great dish something like a gourd cut in half, with smoke floating up from a little hole in the middle.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by Walter De la Mare
