Thus Emser says once in German doggrel, that Luther imagined that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of Luther] Reference

The children weave their flowers and chant some old doggrel rhymes with little or no meaning.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hodge and His Masters] Reference

In what his daughter calls a doggrel list of his friends and his feats, Dr. Burney has thus mentioned the Thrales.    From Wordnik.com.  [Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) Edited with notes and Introductory Account of her life and writings] Reference

He repeated a kind of doggrel pasquinade, beginning with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales and Novels — Volume 10] Reference

It is but a doggrel, I fear, garbled in the memory of old wives.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lord of the Rings]

And thanks for all th ecomments so far, glad you like subversive doggrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE RULES OF THE GAME HAVE CHANGED] Reference

He was in the habit of penning doggrel ballads and hawking them about for sale.    From Wordnik.com.  [Notes and Queries, Number 41, August 10, 1850] Reference

He showed me once a poem he'd written in those days with an apology -- It's doggrel adolescent doggrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gabriel Byrne: A Review of Furious Love by Sam Kashner and Nancy Shoenberg] Reference

He was fond of quoting, as an example of perfect expression, sound conveying absolute sense of the thing described, the doggrel lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference

Page 301: doggrel: alternate spelling for doggerel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Short Studies on Great Subjects] Reference

I wonder whether any man ever wrote doggrel so easily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Letters of Lord Macaulay Volume 1] Reference

It is wretched doggrel, and would make the play far too tedious.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Peace Egg and Other tales] Reference

Variant spelling of doggerel/doggrel (one instance of each) retained.    From Wordnik.com.  [Claverhouse] Reference

Mercutio, and half the dancing doggrel or broad-witted prose of either.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Study of Shakespeare] Reference

A collection of wretched bouts-rimés and burlesque doggrel, written at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Countess of Albany] Reference

D. (34) This event was commemorated in the following doggrel lines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

"Why," said he, "the lay is worthy of the minstrel -- doggrel and dissonance.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.] Reference

Then he began a ludicrous singing, see-saw recitation of the English doggrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXII] Reference

Page 205 his meerschaum, "although I have been guilty of certain doggrel myself.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales.] Reference

After poring over this for a time, he said the following doggrel in a deep bass voice.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jack Harkaway and His Son's Escape from the Brigand's of Greece] Reference

The hand and head were never loft, of thofe Wfjo dealt in doggrel, or who punn'd in profe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical] Reference

In other words they assembled under the sick man's window, and there sang doggrel lampoons on him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference

In the British Museum there are doggrel verses composed on the same subject and in the same spirit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference

I should be ashamed to think that the honour of the Highlands could be affected by such doggrel. ''.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Antiquary] Reference

Robin Hood himself may have trolled out many a time, in doggrel strain, how Hereward played the potter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hereward, the Last of the English] Reference

In this last flourish of Ned's he expended all the variations of his voice upon the doggrel couplet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swallow Barn, or A Sojourn in the Old Dominion. In Two Volumes. Vol. I.] Reference

The alms was then given, and then came the words of thanks, which were often improvised in a kind of doggrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guid New Year] Reference

Martin Schoen was engraving, and Albert Durer was painting there, where, according to the old doggrel rhyme.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christian Singers of Germany] Reference

Received an anonymous satire in doggrel, which, having read the first verse and last, I committed to the flames.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Journal of Sir Walter Scott From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford] Reference

This curious work, in which the Patriarch at last breaks out into doggrel, has found its way to the British Museum.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

And this doggrel had a wonderful effect on the country-folks, who crowded into the town to see the performance of Miss.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village Coquette] Reference

The uncouth doggrel, recited in a lilting sort of measure, the peculiar and various pleasures of a canter upon a pine rail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia] Reference

"Barnes in the defence of the Berde" is another curious piece of verse, or rather of arrant doggrel, printed in the 16th century.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flowers from a Persian Garden and Other Papers] Reference

Other people have invented book-plates, containing fell curses in doggrel Latin or the vernacular on the careless or dishonest borrower.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lost Leaders] Reference