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  • Dosset: If Senator Clinton truly believes she was misled by Bush (that is what she's saying, yes?) that would imply a belief that Bush's intent was to deceive.

    Edwards to Clinton: Explain Your Vote on Iraq 2009

  • James and the other eight children of ‘Superior Dosset,’ of whom there are still five alive, may be said to have represented Victorian

    In Chancery 2004

  • “Superior Dosset” had begun life with next to nothing, and his lineal descendants already owned what old Gradman estimated at between a million and a million and a half, it was not so bad!

    To Let 2004

  • Forsytes down by the sea, from ‘Superior Dosset’ back — grinned out of his face.

    In Chancery 2004

  • “Superior Dosset,” indeed, had built, in a dreadful, and Jolyon painted, in a doubtful period, but so far as he remembered not another of them all had soiled his hands by creating anything — unless you counted Val Dartie and his horse-breeding.

    To Let 2004

  • "Dosset Street, " as it was nicknamed by the locals, was still half asleep despite the fact that the sun had been high over London's rooftops for hours.

    Ripping Time Asprin, Robert 2000

  • In that quiet but tasteful ceremony in Hanover Square, and afterward among the furniture in Green Street, it had been impossible for those not in the know to distinguish the Forsyte troop from the Mont contingent -- so far away was "Superior Dosset" now.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • "Superior Dosset," indeed, had built in a dreadful, and Jolyon painted in a doubtful, period, but so far as he remembered not another of them all had soiled his hands by creating anything -- unless you counted Val Dartie and his horse-breeding.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

  • "Superior Dosset," indeed, had built in a dreadful, and Jolyon painted in

    Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

  • In the union of the great-granddaughter of "Superior Dosset" with the heir of a ninth baronet was the outward and visible sign of that merger of class in class which buttresses the political stability of a realm.

    The Forsyte Saga, Volume III. Awakening To Let John Galsworthy 1900

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