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He tried to dishonour you, and I was resolved to dishonour him by hook or crook, if it took a lifetime, and if what I did was dishonourable, too, and underhand and sly, I don't care a docken!

Watershed 2010

He tried to dishonour you, and I was resolved to dishonour him by hook or crook, if it took a lifetime, and if what I did was dishonourable, too, and underhand and sly, I don't care a docken!

Flashman And The Tiger Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1999

“Come home with me,” she said after she had wrapped the present of two trout up in docken leaves.

Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994

“Come home with me,” she said after she had wrapped the present of two trout up in docken leaves.

Death of a Charming Man Beaton, M. C. 1994

I stopped and looked round me anxiously, but not a living thing besides had been disturbed, and presently I was stowing the parachute away in a bed of high rank grass and docken just under the wall.

The Man from the Clouds 1907

It took me a little time to get my bearings, but I found my way to the clover field at last and then made for the low wall with the bed of rank grass and docken leaves beneath it.

The Man from the Clouds 1907

Before the eggs had hatched, the docken leaf wilted and dried and fell down upon the nest.

Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs John Burroughs 1879

Dinna stand there, ye gowk, as fusionless as a docken, but tell me that!

Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Charles Kingsley 1847

Perhaps he looked rather older than he was, for he was stiff built and strong, with an ample crop of whiskers extending from his great red docken ears round his harvest moon of a face.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

"Pap-in"; but his ankle left him a grievous lameter, hirpling on a staff; and, although his brown scratch and his Kilmarnock helped to hide the bump upon his temple, the dregs of it fell down upon his e'e-bree, which, to the consternation of everybody, became as green as a docken leaf.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824