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Sentence Examples Harry Cat was all set for a long sleep in, but Dolly was determined to rouse me as soon as the light filtered through the blind. Harry was already sleeping in his accustomed place and, unusually, Dolly came up to rest near my feet. By contrast the house was stuffy and airless and I repaired to my garden chair, Dolly and Harry following on behind. Sure enough, just after dusk, there was a fearful scuffle outside, accompanied by a great squeaking and in popped Dolly with a fresh kill. Dolly the Mega-Cat may favour a little Carnation Milk as a nightcap, but, always a lady, never nibbles between meals. Dolly the Mega-Cat delivered her verdict on the day very early this morning, yowling and yammering to be let in. Dolly had better luck with Cat Stevens, one of her all-time favourite singers. But alarm bells began ringing in January last year when Dolly become lame in one leg and was found to have arthritis. Dolly insisted on going out for a little while, and yowled at the door until I opened it. Dolly reproaches him gently when an embarrassed Silas has to ask her what that means. Dolly was fast asleep at my feet, Harry equally zonked, wedged into the small of my back. I closed my eyes, Dolly snuggled up against my legs, and off I drifted, to dream of potatoes and good rhubarb pie. Late in the day, I came to realise I'd not seen another living soul, apart from Dolly, the livelong day. Dolly and Harry have spent most of the day outside, making up for lost time. Our springer-pointer Dolly popped them out six weeks ago, and you couldn't pick a runt among them. So there we are, the entire human part of the establishment stricken with the deadly lurgy, leaving Harry and Dolly to entertain themselves. A bit of rain she can cope with but a deluge of hard, stinging pingy bits of ice is too much even for Dolly the Mega Cat. With plenty of delightful romantic scheming from Dolly, this play is looking forward to a successful run. It is our first night of camping, and I am tenting with Dolly, Patricia, and Joanne. Some little while after Dolly had tested the ground he came suddenly to realise that the door was open and freedom was only a short step away. Show More Sentences Dolly is a professional matchmaker who specialises in pairing up rich businessmen with beautiful wives. Dolly doesn't do proper jobs, at least not in any sense you'd readily recognize. The corn spirit was to live in the cornfield and die as the last sheaf was cut to be re-born in the Corn Dolly. Poor Dolly is having a really bad moult, shedding great wads of fine grey hair. Dolly is about five times the size of a dog, and she's monstrously fast and strong. Radio 3 just played the Dolly Suite which, as all you people of a certain age will know, was the signature tune for Listen With Mother. Both Harry and Dolly came to sit with us, not frightened, you understand, simply lending us their moral support in case we were fearful. Dolly was close to incandescent in her outrage, and swore at me in a most unladylike manner. Harry and Dolly had a good supper and I suspect we'll all three of us be snoring gently very soon. On his part, Dolly cannot sign away his property with a casual, unwitnessed, letter. When the weather broke, a strong, cooling wind came up, and Dolly and I were much more comfortable than of late. Doubtless also they deck out their mothers and wives and sisters in serge gowns and Dolly Varden hats. For the first three to four years, small Dolly Vardens remain in their native streams. In 1980, scientists discovered that bull trout and Dolly Vardens are slightly different species. Young Dolly Vardens rear in streams before beginning their first migration to sea. The Dolly Varden is found in the fresh and salt waters of North America and eastern Asia. Fishing is also very good with record-sized Dolly Vardens being caught continuously. As the salmon begin to leave, or spawn and die, the rainbows, Dolly Vardens and grayling reap a harvest of salmon eggs and bits of flesh. However, southern Dolly Varden originating from nonlake systems must seek a lake in which to winter. Freshwater Dolly Varden can live to be as old as 16 and most spend their lives in streams or lakes. Show More Sentences Cast a line for Rainbows and Dolly Vardens in streams only 50 yards from your cabin. There is little or no subsistence harvesting of Dolly Varden charr from the Firth River. It is doubtful that much more than 50 percent of the Dolly Varden live to spawn a second time. Considered an excellent rainbow trout fishery, the lake also fishes well for Dolly Vardens during the Sockeye Run in August. The eastern Rocky Mountains do not have Dolly Vardens because of the 2,000-mile distance down the Mississippi River. Southern Dolly Varden reach a maximum size of fifteen to twenty-two inches in length and four pounds in weight. Worries about a silent spring or a nuclear winter gave way to wonderment at the Internet and Dolly, the cloned sheep. Dolly came out with me, and we sat for a while, looking up at a bright half-moon and a sky thick with stars. Dolly the dolphin, the much loved senior resident of the Bayworld oceanarium, is pregnant again. Harry and Dolly were waiting impatiently for me, wanting to go out onto the catio to catch the last of the evening. As the evening cooled he did go out to cut hedges and such but otherwise he hid indoors out of the sun, just as Dolly and I did. Dolly leapt into action, the huntress awakened, graceful, athletic, like a prima ballerina in a full fur coat. Dolly advises him to either spank her or put her alone in the coal-hole if she is naughty. The eldest, Gloria, is a poised beauty, while Dolly and Phil are pertly precocious. Her father's alcoholism plunged the family into poverty so humiliating that Dolly was farmed out to various generous strangers for upbringing. Harry is reasonably philosophical about it but Dolly, as usual, puts the blame entirely on me. Dolly has come and gone, but the implications of her design have begun a new chapter in life, ethics and possibilities. Dolly comes to the countryside to regain her stability and find happiness with her kids. I will say that Dolly was contrite over the affair, almost apologetic in fact. The reputed last native speaker of Cornish, Dolly Pentreath, died in 1777 with no one left to speak the language to. Show More Sentences I'd cleaned the house thoroughly early in the day and Dolly and I had managed to get by with only minimal mess. Even Dolly can be reasonably good at not making a mess when she's asked, providing she's asked nicely, of course. I can't say I was too much bothered, though Dolly and Harry were disconsolate. When we came into the house Dolly was waiting for us, expecting to be admired, which duly happened. Dolly took full advantage of the outrageous disruption to vent her bad temper and to express her extreme displeasure in all directions. You hear it in Hank Williams Sr., merle Haggard, early Dolly Parton, and you hear it in George Jones. Two years later it was made into a Hollywood film starring Julia Roberts, Dolly Parton, Sally Field, Anjelica Huston, Shirley MacLaine and Daryl Hannah. Harry and Dolly and I stood in the kitchen doorway looking out, sniffing at the cool, damp, slightly metallic smell of the earth drinking deep after so long a drought. The solemnity of the story is relieved by the humour of the rustic travellers at the Rainbow Inn, and the genial motherliness of Dolly Winthrop, who befriends Silas. Dolly sat fully erect, tasting the air, the picture of feline contentment. I searched every nook and cranny in the kitchen and larder, and examined the underneaths of tables and chairs in case Harry or Dolly had taken a liking to it as a rolly-toy. So Sinatra simply chartered Dolly her own Learjet for the twenty-minute flight to Las Vegas. If by the hero of a novel means one the character not who commands the most interest but who best represents the author's values, Dolly is the heroine. The Royal Museum that houses the first cloned sheep named Dolly, the National Gallery of Scotland along with quite a few national museums are paradigmatic cases in point. The Kenai and Russian Rivers are noted salmon runs but are fished for the hearty rainbow trout and Dolly Vardens that feed upon the salmon's eggs. Dolly and I had a grand siesta right through the oppressive heat of the afternoon, waking to find the early evening cooler and more pleasant altogether. Harry and Dolly seemed perfectly happy to stay home in the warm. Seems we're two of a kind, Dolly and me, both loving the sunshine and the long, langourous days of summer, and both of us loathing the heat and humidity. Harry and Dolly will be pleased to make their acquaintance again, too. With Graham off in Wales, searching out estate and letting agents and looking at house details, Harry and Dolly and I have had a completely shameless, dozy day. Show More Sentences Just as well Harry and Dolly don't mind an extra ration of snoring. Dolly is a white toy poodle, while the other two are Tibetan spaniels. Now Dolly was really unamused, and came over to me, to complain. Dolly is dithering between the working girls and the day spa girls. In August and September, the Dolly Vardens follow the spawning salmon into the freshwater rivers, feeding on salmon eggs and hapless salmon fingerlings. From his earliest days of riding Dolly his horsemanship was superb. And off we toddled, me with my evening gin frosting in my hand, and Dolly with an air of great relief that the election was over, for today at least. The oldest Indian Ocean bottlenose dolphin to be born and raised in captivity, 35-year-old Dolly was last seen mating with Domino in September last year. Dolly yattered at them fiercely, in a non-discriminatory way. When I credit her for discovering Jennifer Lawrence in casting her as Ree Dolly, she smiles bashfully, before backpedaling a bit. I toddled drowsily into the kitchen, rubbing the sleep from my eyes and feeling a whole lot better, to find Dolly sitting at the closed door, gazing forlornly out. Dolly the cat was sitting on the draining board in the kitchen. Dolly complained loudly, Harry curled up and went to sleep and, instead of repairing to my desk and getting on with my work, I took a short restorative nap. Lawrence's performance as ree Dolly has not gotten the same level of attention. Today, Dolly preceded me, and there came another great kerfuffle as she thundered over to the fountain, intent on murdering the avian intruder who was defiling her property. But provided she continues to respond well to the treatment and does not develop any other illnesses Dolly is expected to survive for several more years. We caught tons of salmon, some Dolly Vardens, and even a rogue Steelhead. A postmodern pastiche of popular music styles and hits, the film used songs and music ranging from Madonna and the Beatles to Dolly Parton and Kiss. According to Telegraph UK, Dolly Parton disappointed many fans who believed she was just miming in a supposedly-live performance. Other performers include Scan Tester, Henry Burstow and the sisters Dolly and Shirley Collins. Show More Sentences The stuffed carcass of Dolly the sheep is now on display in the National Museum of Scotland. Three-year-old Jack Floyd of Grangetown, with Dolly and dad Chris Alcoate, top, and Jack''s friend Morgan Wood. Their performace in front of the karaoke machine may not eclipse the great Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers classic rendition. Dolly Parton is home resting after being treated for minor injuries she suffered in a car crash she described as ''a fender bender. Switching between piano, guitar, banjo, harmonica, pennywhistle and more, Dolly went all out to ensure no one left disappointed. The cell used as the donor for the cloning of Dolly was taken from a mammary gland. The villain Dolly Kidd was originally called Boofy Gore, after Arthur 'Boofy' Gore, who in reality was a close friend of the famed author. The most recent extraditions were that of Uribe's sister-in-law Dolly Cifuentes Villa, on Aug. Rose felt it in her bones, as Dolly says, that something was in the wind, and wanted to be off at once. The movie revolves around adventures of Quick Gun Murugun along with his love to-be Mango Dolly and Locket Girl. The Corn Spirit was thought to reside in the Corn Dolly which would be kept and revered until the following spring. In the Dolly Parton song Starting Over Again, it's all the king's horses and all the king's men who can't put the divorced couple back together again. When Dolly the cloned sheep was born, her cells appeared to be prematurely aged, raising concern that cloned animals might have shortened lifespans. It's not all a better day for Dolly, though, and the likes of Just Leaving and Holding Everything Together You And I are pop potboilers best fast-forwarded through. Professor Sir Ian Wilmut, who led the Dolly team, used a mammary gland cell to create the clone so the woolly arrival was named after country star Dolly Parton. Dolly mixtures and jelly beans, Lemon drops and chocolate mint dreams. She wants to once again try her hand at acting, aiming to be granted the chance to play the role of Dolly Parton in an upcoming biopic for the singer. Dolly Parton, the legendary Queen of Country, has registered queenof. The doors were opening and Dolly was leading the bimboy out by the hand. More recently, Sir Ian Wilmut, the man who was responsible for the first cloning of a mammal with Dolly the Sheep in 1996, was a graduate student at Darwin College. Show More Sentences The Jeff Pearce-trained four-year-old showed enough when fourth to Corn Dolly in maiden company at Lingfield 15 days ago to warrant serious respect in today's company. Tempers were already at breaking point after a Corn Dolly batter had knocked over the posts at every base, confusing fielders and thwarting a run-out attempt. Visiting the town on what in the more recent war we called a recce, she arranged a tennis-match with Dolly, guessing that the girl would be a bad loser. The collection includes SL Dolly, 1850, thought to be the world's oldest mechanically powered boat, and several of the classic Windermere launches. Awards won by Honno titles include the 1989 Wales Book of the Year for Morphine and Dolly Mixtures by Carol Ann Courtney, which was later made into a film for television. In September 2006, Lloyd Webber was named to be a recipient of the prestigious Kennedy Center Honors with Zubin Mehta, Dolly Parton, Steven Spielberg, and Smokey Robinson. He stayed close to the theatre producer, who he married two years ago, while their dog Dolly trotted ahead looking a bit bored with all their smooching. Jules, daring teeterboard antics from the Alvarez Family, risley feats by the Anastasini Brothers, and, of course, our own high-flying aerialist, Dolly Jacobs. Examples from Classical Literature It was very strange to her, and she stole a glance at the queenly Miss Dolly on the table. She was named the Dolly, and was the first American vessel launched on this coast. He has been here to say that he's off for derry to-night with the mail to meet Dolly. He said as much to Dolly, but she held her poppet closer and shook her head. Poor Dolly, listening to this, wondered whether the pitch out of the gig at Bridgenorth had fatally injured him. So Dolly waited and in a few moments she could hear out in the hall much giggling and many footsteps. This, I may mention, is a slanderous libel on me, but it sounds all right as Dolly says it. Soon Dolly gasped for breath, trug lolled out his tongue, and even Miles found many pretexts to rest. Miles stood up and held Dolly close to him with one arm, while he grasped trug's collar with the other hand. Dolly nodded to show her detached appreciation of the soundness of this point. The Dolly Varden is the only char native to the Pacific Coast, and like the Eastern brook trout is not properly a trout. He felt chilly now, he found, and hungry too, and he guessed he and trug were best go seek Dolly. The Dolly Varden often reaches a length of thirty to thirty-six inches, and a weight of twelve pounds. I expected on the whole to see him tongue-tied, especially before Dolly and Dilly. In the general relaxation Dolly Beatty slipped off her tightest shoe, one bunion and four corns clamoring loudly for room. Dolly looked nervously round, fearing that she had been inappropriate. But here was Dolly, dressed up to the nines, standing at the door to greet them, and here were the first drops of the rain. This new trait of girlish coquettishness made an unpleasant impression on Dolly. It shows the lives of a group of four women, Magrit, Dolly, Doreen and Mrs Culfeathers as they work in a Glasgow steamie, a communal washhouse. Meanwhile Dolly and the children had moved into the country, to cut down expenses as much as possible. Show More Sentences I'm glad, right heartily glad that 'tis all off atween Gilbert an' Dolly. One cold windy day Dolly had brought Jerry a basin of something hot, and was standing by him while he ate it. Dolly listened with a devout look, glancing at Marner in some confidence that this strain would help to allure him to church. But a Dolly Varden isn't a trout at all, it's really a char. Dolly has a great many friends in Paris, and so has Dad, and so has chic. If you like to say Dolly began it, my dear, I shall not contradict you. Julie was arrested while blackberrying in a Dolly Varden hat. The Dolly Varden trout is very plentiful in all these rivers. Haredale searched vainly next day for Emma and Dolly Varden. Meanwhile, Dolly Winthrop and Lydgate wards remain closed to new patients and visitors. Dolly stole glances at her father-in-law which he did not answer. In the face of her husband's illness, Dolly could not prove a gadabout. See how it seems to gild everything as the light rises, Dolly! But Dolly only laughed the more as she took the merino from him. Dolly did not join in her mother's laugh nor unbend in the least. But of all men alive Dolly Longstaff was the most unpunctual. She shook her head, while I untethered Dolly, the sorrel mare. The Bee Gees join past honourees including Paul Simon, Merle Haggard, James Brown, Carlos Santana and Dolly Parton. Throughout the weekend Corn Dolly expert Helen Moran will demonstrate the art of making dollies, which historically were considered as the spirit of the crop. The instinct is not confined solely to Beau Brummels and Dolly Vardens. Show More Sentences Dolly was obliged to kneel down, and recommence at the beginning. Dolly plays golf too, though I believe not so well, and they first met in a mixed foursome. But with all his smirking, Dolly Varden only laughed at him. Dolly hesitated again, and not being able to decide upon any other course of action, burst into tears. With these words poor Dolly, who to do her justice was quite as sorry for the loss of the letter as for her bracelet, fell a-crying again, and bemoaned her fate most movingly. The Christmas carol, with its hammer-like rhythm, had fallen on his ears as strange music, quite unlike a hymn, and could have none of the effect Dolly contemplated. Silas was as unable to interpret the letters as Dolly, but there was no possibility of misunderstanding the desire to give comfort that made itself heard in her quiet tones. Dolly was too useful a woman not to have many opportunities of illumination of the kind she alluded to, and she was not long before she recurred to the subject. He had both prepared for the university with the young Prince Shtcherbatsky, the brother of Kitty and Dolly, and had entered at the same time with him. The departure of the Indians to their winter quarters gradually rendered provisions scanty, and obliged the colonists to send out foraging expeditions in the Dolly. We then ratified our engagement with an affectionate wedding of palms, and to elude suspicion repaired each to his hammock, to spend the last night on board the Dolly. There was no bed now in the living-room, and the small space was well filled with decent furniture, all bright and clean enough to satisfy Dolly Winthrop's eye. He opened the door wide to admit Dolly, but without otherwise returning her greeting than by moving the armchair a few inches as a sign that she was to sit down in it. There was the cheval-glass, that miracle of art, in which he could just see his own wondering head and the reflection of Dolly, plumping and patting the pillows of the bed. Find more words! 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