dog's-eared
- a word derived from dog's-ear.
Example Sentences
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But you grow tired of this; you tire even of the swing, and of the pranks of Charlie; and you glide away into a corner with an old, dog's-eared copy of "Robinson Crusoe."
From Dream Life A Fable Of The Seasons by Mitchell, Donald Grant
“Two hundred and fifty-nine degrees,” muttered the fire-scout, booking the figures in his dog’s-eared diary.
From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman
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 Locke, William John
Emigration Jane hesitated, biting the dog's-eared finger-ends of a cotton glove.
From The Dop Doctor by Dehan, Richard
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 Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow
