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  • They tried to Gerrymander Lloydd Dogget out of the house, here in Texas by making a ribbon from Austin to Brownsville.

    Barney Frank goes toe to toe at health care town hall 2009

  • He surprised the heck out of me in Walk the Line, Xfiles (Dogget was better than Mulder anyday) ... he's also been in LOST and 24 here lately!!!

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  • There is a portrait of Dogget the celebrated comedian (said to be the only one extant, but query if it is not Penkethman?), representing him dancing the _Cheshire Round_, with the motto "_Ne sutor ultra crepidam_."

    Notes and Queries, Number 28, May 11, 1850 Various

  • The play had a run of thirty-five nights and as cunning as Dogget, was so charm'd with the proposal that he long'd that moment to make Booth the present with his own hands; and though he knew he had no right to do it without my consent, had no patience to ask it; upon which I turned to

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • In the hopes of shutting off all pretensions to this honour by a paltry expedient Dogget thought that Cibber, Wilks and himself, as joint managers, could relieve themselves of every obligation by duplicating the generosity of the Tory statesman.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • Booth had the fifty guineas, which he receiv'd with a thankfulness that made Wilks and Dogget perfectly easy, insomuch that they seem'd for some time to triumph in their conduct, and often endeavour'd to laugh my jealousy out of countenance.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • Dogget still sullenly reply'd, that he had no occasion to enter into any treaty.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • Owen Swiney entered into treaty with Wilks, Dogget, Mrs. Oldfield and

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • I then offer'd the same trust to Wilks, if Dogget approv'd of it.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

  • Lane, under the triumvirate of Cibber, Wilks and Dogget, she helps to make sedate Addison's equally sedate "Cato" a triumphant success.

    The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield Edward Robins 1902

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