dixy
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dixies
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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
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
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
It is probably not generally known that it takes ten dixies full of snow, when melted down, to make one dixie full of water.
From With British Guns in Italy A Tribute to Italian Achievement by Hugh Dalton, Baron Dalton
Immediately upon arrival the horses were off-saddled and fed, the "dixies" were unearthed from off the pack-saddles and everything pointed to an early mug of tea and a much-needed rest.
From Through Palestine with the Twentieth Machine Gun Squadron by Unknown
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
They would fetch the char and bacon from the field kitchen in the morning and clean up the "dixies" after breakfast.
From A Yankee in the Trenches by Robert Derby Holmes
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