The crowd thinned when the performer launched into his doggerel. From LearnThat.org.
He had heard some silly doggerel that kept running through his mind. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Her comment upon this, in French doggerel, is illuminating. From Wordnik.com. [The Concealed Fansyes: A Play by Lady Jane Cavendish and Lady Elizabeth Brackley] Reference
It seems an appropriate time (if there is one) to share this bit of doggerel from a short story by William Sanders. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
The Mask of Anarchy) in doggerel verse-satire based on popular religious symbols. From Wordnik.com. [Historical Contexts] Reference
I will next group a score of poems and doggerel rhymes with their various degrees of humor. From Wordnik.com. [The Wit of Women Fourth Edition] Reference
This poem is in the style of “Hudibras,” called doggerel rhyme, which is the stilo Berniesco of the Italians. From Wordnik.com. [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference
Dare, despite her scorn for mere "doggerel," had penned a verse suitable to each guest. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Bonnet in Boston or, Boarding-School Days at Miss North's] Reference
He has a couple more examples of the same kind of doggerel, but I have not taken them down. From Wordnik.com. [The Aran Islands] Reference
Parodic doggerel by the author on her loss of pets. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
Jefferson wrote the most delicious doggerel about it. From Wordnik.com. [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference
This was followed by a doggerel rhyme celebrating the event. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
Ruth knew instantly to what the little doggerel song referred. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret] Reference
This supposition has found strength and sanction in doggerel verse. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
Underneath was a bit of doggerel elaborating certain traits ascribed to. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Bagby's editorial pine, scribbled in turn doggerel on some war subject. From Wordnik.com. [Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death] Reference
To be sure, the bit of doggerel had been inscribed on a card sent him by. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
Strasbourg for harboring the "Lutherans," contains these doggerel lines. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)] Reference
And the author of some doggerel verses, referring to Burford Downs, says. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
This is how the rhyme goes -- a fairly modern version of a much older doggerel. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
September 3rd, 1653, and as was usual with him wrote about it in doggerel verse. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
The native boys however, on hearing it, exclaim in doggerel rhyme, which I translate. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.] Reference
These doggerel lines indicate clearly the dread in which this innocent snake is held. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
By repeating the following doggerel lines the worst case of toothache could be cured. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
A note-book is preserved, containing, along with examples in arithmetic, this boyish doggerel. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
The preface closes with a long doggerel rhyme, which, the translator says, he has purposely left untranslated. From Wordnik.com. [Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century] Reference
Souvaroff's doggerel despatch from Ismail, immortalised by Byron, is, as usual, misspelt and mistranslated. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Montgomeryshire, adjoining Shropshire, I have heard the following doggerel lines substituted for the Welsh. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
As the clock began striking twelve the fellow-servant began striking the floor with a strap, repeating the doggerel lines. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Folk-Lore a Collection of the Folk-Tales and Legends of North Wales] Reference
On the contrary, the public in America which looks for moral inspiration to clergymen, is fed upon this sort of doggerel. From Wordnik.com. [Morality as a Religion An exposition of some first principles] Reference
The historical value of nursery rhymes is incapable of being better illustrated than in the following old English doggerel. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
There is a verse of rough doggerel which the children in these parts still repeat, and which embodies the story of this tyrant. From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
This so-called inscription was in reality nothing but some English doggerel of anything but a refined character turned into Greek. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy.] Reference
I enclose a few doggerel verses penned painfully on a pad perched on a pillow, which -- if you can read 'em -- you are welcome to do so. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)] Reference
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