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Dog-eared   /dɔg-ɪrd/   Listen
Dog-eared

adjective
1.
Worn or shabby from overuse or (of pages) from having corners turned down.  Synonym: eared.  "An old book with dog-eared pages"






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"Dog-eared" Quotes from Famous Books



... wholly independent of their intrinsic value. One transports us back to a remote period of history. Another places us among the novel scenes avid manners of a distant region. A third evokes all the dear classical recollections of childhood, the schoolroom, the dog-eared Virgil, the holiday, and the prize. A fourth brings before us the splendid phantoms of chivalrous romance, the trophied lists, the embroidered housings, the quaint devices, the haunted forests, the enchanted gardens, the achievements of enamoured knights, ...
— Critical and Historical Essays Volume 1 • Thomas Babington Macaulay

... September, when the fishing closes, or else in April, when it opens. To varnish a rod in December proves that one possesses either a dilatory or a childishly anticipatory mind. But before uncorking the varnish bottle, it occurred to me to examine a dog-eared, water-stained fly-book, to guard against the ravages of possible moths. This interlude proved fatal to the varnishing. A half hour went happily by in rearranging the flies. Then, with a fisherman's lack of ...
— Fishing with a Worm • Bliss Perry

... unmoved, to the outer eye, though with a whitening face, and then took up the dog-eared "Bradshaw" that lay close by upon the little oak writing-table. His hand trembled. One glance at the map, however, ...
— What's Bred In the Bone • Grant Allen



Words linked to "Dog-eared" :   worn



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