Dover
['dəuvə]
Definition
v.i. (Scot.) to slumber lightly doze off.—v.t. to send off into a light sleep.—n. a slight unsettled sleep.
Editor: Lou
Examples
- At the old lodgings it was understood that he was summoned to Dover, and, in fact, he was taken down the Dover road and cornered out of it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- My aunt and I were at that time vacating the two cottages at Highgate; I intending to go abroad, and she to return to her house at Dover. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- McClernand was on the right and covered the roads running south and south-west from Dover. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The pace was suddenly checked, and, with much splashing and floundering, a man's voice called from the mist, Is that the Dover mail? Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It were no mighty leap methinks from Calais to Dover. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The first attempt to establish a submarine circuit between Dover and Calais took place on the 28th of August, 1850. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- When we arrived at Dover, New Jersey, we got a New York newspaper, and I called his attention to the quotation of that day on General Electric. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Once more, the Dover mail struggled on, with the jack-boots of its passengers squashing along by its side. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He opened it in the light of the coach-lamp on that side, and read--first to himself and then aloud: 'Wait at Dover for Mam'selle. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- On our arrival at Livius's lodgings in Dover Street, we found an elegant, cold supper laid out, with plenty of champagne on the side-board. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- But look here, he continued, drawing a paper from his pocket and opening it; here is Dover's account. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They were speedily led to Dover Castle, from whose keep Adrian had watched the movements of the boat. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Fort Donelson is two miles north, or down the river, from Dover. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Adrian and his division, consisting in all of five hundred persons, were to take the direction of Dover and Calais. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
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