dodoes

"We Hepburns are extinct as the dodoes now," he said, and he rambled on with the names of many other creatures which had become fruitless, leafless twigs on the tree of evolution.

Galapagos Vonnegut, Kurt 1985

Are they Elect, or are they Preterite, and doomed as dodoes?

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Frans could not know that except for a few others on the island of Reunion, these were the only dodoes in the Creation, and that he was helping exterminate a race.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

But by the middle of the 17th century there were no more pigs of gold, only of flesh mortal as that of Frans Van der Groov, another ancestor, who went off to Mauritius with a boatload of these live hogs and lost thirteen years toting his haakbus through the ebony forests, wandering the swamps and lava flows, systematically killing off the native dodoes for reasons he could not explain.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

Otherwise the dodoes would be only what they appear as in the world's illusory light-only our prey.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

And there are tears of happiness in the eyes of the dodoes.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

He left the dodoes to rot, he couldn't endure to eat their flesh.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

"Including stuffed owls and gilt eagles and dodoes -- and wood-burning airplanes?"

The Creature from Cleveland Depths Fritz Leiber 1951

Squeers, Pumblechook; so with giraffes, baboons, dodoes, dromedaries, -- all are freaks from the æsthetic viewpoint, but think of the overflowing energy implied in creating them!

Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909

"The Twitter Book" touches on these services too, making it easier for even high-tech dodoes to fit in with the rest of the flock.

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