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  • Theroux is firsthand witness to it all, traveling as the locals doby stifling train, rattletrap bus, illicit taxi, and mud-caked footencountering adventures only he could have: from the literary (sparring with the incisive Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk) to the dissolute (surviving a week-long bender on the Trans-Siberian Railroad).

    Ghost Train to the Eastern Star by Paul Theroux: Book summary 2010

  • No doby doubts that a Public Option Insurance Plan (POIP) proposed by the Democrats is the best way to ensure a comprehensive heathcare reform that will benefit all Americans.

    GOP senator blasts Dems health care proposals 2009

  • This calls for theneed to continue to pressPresident Obama to end the policies that have made this assault possible -- which he can doby taking steps now to reverse the Bush administration's 2002rule change authorizing the Army Corps to permit mining companies to use waterways as waste dumps.

    Rob Perks: Making Sense of EPA's Mountaintop Removal Action 2009

  • Ako môj otec hovorieval nám o tom, ako Taliani vtip Sicilians ich negro predkov z doby, kedy Moors obsadenej južné Taliansko a nazval ich "baklažán" ako rasistické hanlivý výraz.

    ideonexus.com »2007» July 2007

  • They're a bit doby and joanish, and let them get on with it, as long as he doesn't interfere with the institution of monarchy.

    CNN Transcript Mar 25, 2004 2004

  • A friend of mine who enlisted when I did, caught a severe case of the doby itch which kept him in an almost helpless condition for eight months.

    A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman

  • One doctor said that it would require three or four years 'careful treatment to cure an acute case of doby itch in another climate.

    A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman

  • Santa Fe with its narrow streets looking like alleys was built mostly of doby (mud bricks).

    The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail William H. Ryus

  • I was informed that it was doby itch, and that I should have it doctored before it spread.

    A Soldier in the Philippines Needom N. Freeman

  • They'd cut a trail in them doby flats like a bunch uh gallopin 'buffalo.

    Raw Gold A Novel Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

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