The first appearance of the word dory for fish is listed as 1440. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 4] Reference
SANCHEZ: We should probably mention too, that a dory -- a dory is a-- is a type. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 3, 2007] Reference
In a very few minutes the dory was a mere gray wraith on the water, but there it hung. From Wordnik.com. [Radio Boys Loyalty Bill Brown Listens In] Reference
A fancy "dory" for two pairs of sculls, in which I sometimes go out with my young folks. From Wordnik.com. [Autocrat of the Breakfast Table] Reference
A fancy 'dory' for two pairs of sculls, in which I sometimes go out with my young folks. From Wordnik.com. [Authors and Friends] Reference
At the middle buoy he relieved Spurling in the dory. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The water around the dory was alive with whirlpools. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
He pulled in the dory and looked her carefully over. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Jim let the dory slip back to the end of her painter. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
A dory with two men in it came rowing toward the buoy. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Freed from its floating anchor, the dory bobbed wildly. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The dory swung side to the sea and sank into the trough. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Springing into the dory, he sculled rapidly to the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Five sleepy boys tumbled into the dory and paddled ashore. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The warp leading back to the dory trailed across his face. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The tail of the wounded shark struck the dory a heavy blow. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The point isn't that all of a sudden everything's hunky-dory. From Wordnik.com. [Shifting To A Clean Energy Economy] Reference
My Bucksport dory has just been pulled up on the ledges and painted. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The flapping, dying heap in the center of the dory enlarged steadily. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Lane was passing boxes and bundles ashore from the dory to Stevens and. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
You'll find your dory in the rockweed about fifty feet east of the cove. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
“So you don't see no cops and you think everything's just honky-dory?”. From Wordnik.com. [Gazing Skyward... Or, in the dim twilight of youth] Reference
"I've made their dory fast in a little gulch among the rockweed," said he. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
It's not that everything is already hunky - dory with the forging business. From Wordnik.com. [The New Bharat Forge] Reference
The dory was made fast to her stern and the pea-pod's painter tied to the dory. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
They stowed everything in its place, then headed out of the cove, towing the dory. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The sloop still lay at anchor in its center, but the dory was grounded on the beach. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Not that it is all hunky-dory for those in swabs (see "Reasons Not To Become A Doctor"). From Wordnik.com. [America's Best- And Worst-Paying Jobs] Reference
Even before the dory grounded they tumbled aboard and flung their arms about the castaways. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
Our lives screech and jangle out of tune; Hootie offers us cushy riffs and hunky-dory harmonies. From Wordnik.com. [The Unbearable Lightness Of Being Hootie] Reference
After giving them ample time to find the dory, the boys quietly made their way to the north shore. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
The dory, overbalanced to starboard, careened suddenly, and he fell sprawling on the slimy bottom. From Wordnik.com. [Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good] Reference
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