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Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels?

From Time Magazine Archive

The man who's neither cynic brute, Nor phrase-led sycophantic doter, May echo that.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, May 13, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

The old doter, in his second childhood, makes for himself some idol, some palpable, tangible god, and the coarser it is, the better he succeeds.

From Priests, Women, and Families by Michelet, Jules

He is no recluse, no solitary student, no dreamer about the past, no doter upon the dead and gone, no projector of the visionary.

From The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin by Newman, John Henry

The handsomest of them all is the "ranger," as the young doter is called.

From Ungava Bob A Winter's Tale by Wallace, Dillon