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Then Colonel Schmoff bowed, never yet having spoken a word in Harry's hearing, and our friend Doodles with glib volubility told Harry how intimate he was with Archie, and how he knew Sir Hugh, and how he had met Lady Clavering, and how "doosed" glad he was to meet Harry himself on this present occasion.

The Claverings Anthony Trollope 1848

I think it doosed wrong of Hugh, the way he goes on, keeping her down there, while he is up here in London.

The Claverings 2005

She had always been good at talking, and he had paused for her to say something; but when she bowed to him in that stiff manner — “doosed stiff she was; doosed stiff, and impudent, too,” he told Doodles afterward — he knew that he must go on himself.

The Claverings 2005

“A doosed small property near Leamington,” she said, repeating the words after him.

The Claverings 2005

Harry how intimate he was with Archie, and how he knew Sir Hugh, and how he had met Lady Clavering, and how “doosed” glad he was to meet Harry himself on this present occasion.

The Claverings 2005

But at any rate it was clear that there was no room in his heart for the beauteous Clementina, ‘doosed fine girl’ as she undoubtedly was, and serviceable as the �,000 most certainly would have been.

The Three Clerks 2004

Clementina Golightly was, in the common parlance of a large portion of mankind, a ‘doosed fine gal.’

The Three Clerks 2004

Golightly �,000, and was she not a ‘doosed fine girl?’

The Three Clerks 2004

‘A doosed sight,’ said the captain, hardly articulating from under his thick, sandy-coloured moustache, which, growing downwards from his nose, looked like a heavy thatch put on to protect his mouth from the inclemency of the clouds above.

The Three Clerks 2004

There was an heiress, a ‘doosed fine girl’ as Undy insisted, laying peculiar strength on the word of emphasis, with �,000, and there was Charley Tudor, a devilish decent fellow, without a rap.

The Three Clerks 2004