So I was a sir and Tinker was a doss-house lounger. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Still they get their feed all right and their doss. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
Behind us are our sleeping bags, where we will doss tonight. From Wordnik.com. [Broken Music, A Memoir]
Ergo, either it is not a degree at all, or it is a doss one. From Wordnik.com. [Surf's Up] Reference
Lay off your old lady's butane box when your doss in the pad. From Wordnik.com. [Sound Politics: Qapla' batlh je] Reference
"They'd be the perfect doss-house for a vagrant, wouldn't they?". From Wordnik.com. [In the Presence of the Enemy]
All I need's enough money to pay me doss -ouse for a few nights. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
The place where we were quartered was a typical London doss house. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee in the Trenches] Reference
"You cawn't ever come back 'ere again for a doss," they warned me. From Wordnik.com. [THE SPIKE] Reference
The little private doss-houses, as a rule, are unmitigated horrors. From Wordnik.com. [COFFEE-HOUSES AND DOSS-HOUSES] Reference
Some say she was born in a workhouse, a caravan, or an East-end doss. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
I'm not suggesting that Essex is some kind of Steinbeckian doss house. From Wordnik.com. [Russell Brand: This charming man] Reference
I will not have this auction interrupted by any old doss-house lounger! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
Crockett Residence chadbourne + doss 206.860.1975, 1469 22nd Ave, Seattle. From Wordnik.com. [Build Blog » Hot Shots of the Northwest] Reference
There being only four beds, one of us would have to doss down on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [Pushed and the Return Push] Reference
When you were flush, you paid up your doss for as long as you could afford. From Wordnik.com. [Take A Thief]
If he lacked money to pay her, he could provide a meal or a doss or whatever. From Wordnik.com. [The Game Of Empire]
"Maybe we could go someplace b-fore I go back to me doss -ouse an" find Annie?. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
Go to doss with the poulterer, you understand, and shake up with the milch-mand. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
At night one has to pick and choose a little, before getting a satisfactory "doss.". From Wordnik.com. [A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition] Reference
The broom on his shoulder bounced as he walked and looked for a place to doss down. From Wordnik.com. [Son of a Witch]
I shivered blearily in my crumpled clothes and felt like a reject from a doss house. From Wordnik.com. [Slay Ride]
I'll -ave my doss money before long, I will, and I'll be back wiv you and the girls. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
It was a working-man's tenement, not a doss house where the homeless flopped for the night. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
As an environment, the doss-house is interesting enough, but it is imperfect and inadequate. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
But as it is you are a sad drunk posting drunkenly in a lonely doss hole in Heywood at 1 am. From Wordnik.com. [Dave's Debacle: Click to Enlarge, Image Not Membership] Reference
Till quite recently the word ‘doss’ was used in this sense, but it is now quite obsolete. From Wordnik.com. [Down and Out in Paris and London] Reference
Any mirror was a valuable commodity in a doss house-which made Polly reluctant to give it up. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
The drivers and guards had a couple of tents, although some preferred to doss down in the open. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
"I've got to have enough for my own doss house tonight, " she muttered, digging out a few coins. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
The armed force doss not monitor troops who may suffer psychological problems once they get home. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2007] Reference
From these remote districts it spread to the doss houses, the prisons and the outskirts of towns. From Wordnik.com. [Charles Nicolle - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The two women had been friends, often sharing a room in one of the area's hundreds of doss houses. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
I believe we should go to the doss houses along Dorset Street, listen to what the women are saying. From Wordnik.com. [Ripping Time]
"On the doss," they call vagabondage here, which corresponds to "on the road" in the United States. From Wordnik.com. [THE SPIKE] Reference
Of all the criminals we have encountered in doss-houses, shelters, and labour-colonies, scarce a single one. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
He lends the best part of his remaining funds to his friends, and the rest goes in vodka and his keep at the doss-house. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Anyone who has spent time trying to untangle MS-DOS (a.k.a. messy doss) probably won't expect much from Microsoft's new Home line. From Wordnik.com. [Home Is Where the Money Is] Reference
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