Dy

Examples

• It's midnight, and past; and I'll have nob'dy staying up i' my house any longer. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And no ba'dy gaieties, I suppose? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Them lads 'at's coming 'll keep ye talking, nob'dy knows how long. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It belangs to me, and nob'dy else. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I walked by the side of the what-dy'e-call-'em, you know, and to her own door, where Bowls came to help her in. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• How-dy-do, Mrs. Lock? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One charm of travel dies here. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The steel for the manufacture of dies is carefully selected, forged at a high heat into the rough die, softened by careful annealing, and then handed over to the engraver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Such a creature as a reptile has in its brain a capacity for experience, but when the individual dies, its experience dies with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one? Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Any woman that dies unmarried is looked upon to die in a state of reprobation. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I hold you till one or other of us faints or dies! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Their force has long passed away--Age has no pleasures, wrinkles have no influence, revenge itself dies away in impotent curses. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• And he who dies in battle will be at once declared to be of the golden race, and will, as we believe, become one of Hesiod's guardian angels. Plato. The Republic.
• The tender plant is produced; but in so cold a soil, and so severe a climate, soon withers and dies. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They dies everywheres, said the boy. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Linda