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Meanings of doggerel verse in English
Synonyms
Examples for "jingle"
Examples for "jingle"
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Just then the quick ears of Miles heard the jingle of arms.
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At the faintest sound of movement in the brushwood, the jingle ceases.
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And then I heard it: the light jingle of a horse's tack.
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And he made a pleasant jingle with the coins in his pocket.
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The course of the ship was changed, and the jingle bell sounded.
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A current piece of doggerel when I was in Washington ran thus:
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The verse was naturally doggerel, and maybe given in English as follows-
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They began chattering among themselves and sang in chorus a ribald doggerel:
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My lady was pleased to laugh at the doggerel, and even Mrs.
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And the author of some doggerel verses, referring to Burford Downs, says:-
Usage of doggerel verse in English
1
Though taken for a lunatic, the doggerel verse she sang disproved the popular slanders.
2
Southey, in somewhat prolix and doggerel verse, has given the following account of the ceremony:
3
Stately prose and the language of the Gospel narratives have been substituted for doggerel verse.
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And after that one doggerel verse she made a gesture of good-humoured contempt and danced.
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But I had identified his doggerel verse at last.
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There is an amusing page, in doggerel verse, which I remember to have read some years ago.
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This has helped to perpetuate the myth, which was also reinforced by the following piece of doggerel verse:
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Verse quotations may be taken from a well-known poem, a popular song, a nursery rhyme, or even doggerel verse.
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And the author of some doggerel verses, referring to Burford Downs, says:-
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His epitaph gave a fairly accurate list of his achievements in doggerel verses:
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He, in return, wrote doggerel verses to her over the tea-tray in this fashion:-
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The doggerel verses beneath the illustration were scarcely legible.
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Look at your father and his poems; he thinks his doggerel verses a mark of genius.
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Some associations seem connected with the objects spoken of in the doggerel verses by which children are often taught their numbers.
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She even published doggerel verses in the "Dublin Weekly Advertiser", and signed them "Speranza," which annoyed Lady Wilde intensely.
16
We laughed at some doggerel verses which he cited, and which we, never having seen them before, suspected to be his own.