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  • The great grounds of the Atlantic codfish, the Grand Banks of Newfoundland are left to the memories of the few brave old men alive who went out in their dorys to fish by hand.

    In praise of … the Big Fish Fight | Editorial 2011

  • By Saturday he appeared to be a very happy czar, singing of hunky-dorys all over the globe.

    The Bug That Didn't Bite 2008

  • We took also a large number of giltheads, about one and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying fire-fish like submarine swallows, which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their phosphorescent light. {2 sentences missing here}

    Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 2003

  • We took also a large number of gilt-heads, about one and a half inches long, tasting like dorys; and flying pyrapeds like submarine swallows, which, in dark nights, light alternately the air and water with their phosphorescent light.

    Vingt mille lieues sous les mers. English Jules Verne 1866

  • "I could make a fine caricature of them in the shapes of fishes, -- dorys, flounders, sharks, and snappers, all dancing a saraband!"

    Bureaucracy Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • To all the "feminists" out there, by complaining about this ad, you've just gave a great company the free advertising that they wanted! what about mccoys - man crisps?? nobody complains about them! all in all i think its fantastically funny the amount of publicity that hunky dorys have gained from these adverts, it was their aim! well done raymond cole, you legend.

    Belfasttelegraph.co.uk - Frontpage RSS Feed 2010

  • Fishing is the occupation of the inhabitants, and the table-d’hôte at our comfortable, clean, little inn was plentifully supplied with magnificent john dorys, large red mullet, langoustes, and fish of every description.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

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