Dodges
[dɔdʒz]
Examples
- He's made of dodges. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He dodges about in his boat, does this man, till he gets chilled. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Shirley, in spite of her whims and oddities, her dodges and delays, has an infatuated fondness for him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But these may be only lawyer's dodges. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Yet this does not always happen; a person trained to dodge a threatening blow, dodges automatically with no corresponding thought or emotion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Printing is the most obvious of dodges. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- One of his dodges,' said Mr Fledgeby, with a cool and contemptuous shrug. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I believe it's Slickson's doing,--confound him and his dodges! Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
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