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For next morning the old hound was taken ill again - I don't know if surfeit of blancmange can cause nervous collapse, but by afternoon he was groaning in bed, shuddering as with a fever, and Solomon insisted on summoning his own medico from Town, a dundreary-looking cove with a handle to his name and a line in unctuous gravity that must have been worth five thousand a year in Mayfair.
Flashman's Lady Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1977
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Bill, with his solemn dundreary whiskers, leaped high in the air like a frog, kicking his legs and yelling drunkenly as he took off.
Tramping on Life Kemp, Harry, 1883-1960 1922
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Bill, with his solemn dundreary whiskers, leaped high in the air like a frog, kicking his legs and yelling drunkenly as he took off.
Tramping on Life An Autobiographical Narrative Harry Kemp 1921
yarb commented on the word dundreary
Hi George, when was it we had that last passenger for Berlin, the old gentleman with the dundreary whisker, and was so generous with his money?
- Stevie Smith, Novel on Yellow Paper
February 23, 2009