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  • There was some dosey old tart drivelling on about blogs being bad?

    You Couldn’t Make It Up « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2009

  • Watching it right then took me back to dosey does at a middle school dance.

    Blind Melon No Rain Lauren Belski 2011

  • The other class marches to fife and drum and sometimes dosey-does.

    Beatnik Blonde 2010

  • The earth and the sun, are eternally engaged in a cosmic back-and-forth-give-and-take dosey-do dance of dark and light, day and night.

    Donna Henes: Winter Solstice: Baby, It's Dark Outside 2009

  • Perhaps one of them will call the executive dosey-do performed Friday.

    After Downbeat Year, Sony BMG's Lack Cedes CEO Spot 2006

  • So call it a dosado--colloquially, a "dosey-do"--a pas de deux or a tango: Lack is two-stepping out of the CEO spot--and taking the chairmanship from Rolf Schmidt-Holtz, who in turn takes the CEO's reins from Lack.

    After Downbeat Year, Sony BMG's Lack Cedes CEO Spot 2006

  • Perhaps one of them will call the executive dosey-do performed Friday.

    Faces Of The Week: Feb. 6 -10, 2006 Forbes Faces Of The Week: Feb. 6 -10, 2006 Forbes.com staff 2006

  • The managing director having completed his exposition, Soames directed his gaze at the pink face of dosey old

    The White Monkey 2004

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character - except perhaps as a suitor.

    David Copperfield Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 1917

  • Altogether, I have never, on any occasion, made one at such a cosey, dosey, old-fashioned, time-forgotten, sleepy-headed little family-party in all my life; and I felt it would be quite a soothing opiate to belong to it in any character-except perhaps as a suitor.

    David Copperfield 1850

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