Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A cotton cloth woven with stripes of different thicknesses.
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Examples
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Scarcely was the word Doria uttered -- I would sooner have seen my name inscribed in the infernal register than have heard yours thus mentioned -- scarcely was it uttered when Fiesco showed himself to the people.
Fiesco; or, the Genoese Conspiracy Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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Scarcely was the word Doria uttered -- I would sooner have seen my name inscribed in the infernal register than have heard yours thus mentioned -- scarcely was it uttered when Fiesco showed himself to the people.
The Works of Frederich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller 1782
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The Doria is a dive that I will likely make at some point in my dive career.
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If NUMA could raise the Titanic, the Doria should be a cinch.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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If NUMA could raise the Titanic, the Doria should be a cinch.
SERPENT CLIVE CUSSLER 2000
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If he has a measure of our sympathy in his feud with the younger Doria, that is only because Gianettino is portrayed as a vulgar brute deserving of nothing but the gallows.
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Thomas, Calvin, 1854-1919 1901
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The Admiral Barbarossa, eighty-four years of age, used to call Doria, his eternal rival nearly ninety years old, "my brother."
Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) A Novel Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897
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If he has a measure of our sympathy in his feud with the younger Doria, that is only because Gianettino is portrayed as
The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller Calvin Thomas 1886
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Corzine called Doria - a former Assembly speaker, former senator and former longtime Bayonne mayor - "a man of talent and dedication."
unknown title 2009
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"Doria," 38 years old, told me during a counseling session in Kando that her husband and children are disgusted by her and run far from her as she smells so terrible.
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