| Tents were a luxury that most couldn't afford in those pre-wars days, preferring a doss in a cave or on the floor of a roadman's hut. |
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| He made a doss for me on the veranda where I could lie during the day and stare into the still garden. |
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| It was then privately-owned and I suppose letting him doss there saved them paying for a separate night watchman. |
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| We'd save money by hitching and sleeping in train stations or anywhere we could doss down for a couple of hours. |
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| Some students might enrol on the course under the false perception that it is a doss year. |
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| He heads for a dirty hut in the country where he can doss down and eke out a living. |
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| As most of us saw art class as a doss lesson, we ignored any advice given by our harassed art teacher. |
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| After much consternation and consultation, it was arranged that the Queen would doss down with a wealthy family. |
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| Back in Wicklow, he says, he can happily doss away weeks and months with them without so much as a blink. |
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| Perhaps that was because this time around I actually wanted to learn rather than doss around. |
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| It is home to up to ten visitors each night who doss down in comfortable knowledge that they'll be waking to a mountain-sized breakfast! |
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| Why should a company pay for someone's social life or doss hour? |
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| Of course, not having any income or a regular job meant that I was always broke and after a while it got embarrassing to doss down at friends' pads. |
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| I had returned to London on the Tuesday before the big match, with fifty quid in my pocket and the promise of a couch to doss on in some old friend's dingy Zone 4 dive. |
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| Loads of unsigned bands turn up and doss about for a week, basically. |
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| And he, despite the fact he's there to ensure I'm fully empowered and actively jobhunting, acted as though I was going to doss around for four weeks. |
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| Everyone else seems to treat it as a doss lesson but I like it. |
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| It is generally perceived to be a bit of a doss job and well paid to boot. |
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| He doss only orthodontia, or teethstraight enting, and all his patients are children. |
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| They shambled down the aisle, jackets open and school ties wrenched loose, at this hour brazenly on the doss. |
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| So there were plenty of places I could doss when I was young, free, and single. |
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| Beggars line the streets and doss in doorways. |
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| From there it plunges into a murky late-Victorian London of secret gentleman's clubs, glittering ballrooms, East End doss houses, steam trains and rattling carriages. |
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| After the party, John let me doss down on the living-room floor. |
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| With three sacks and 10 tackles for loss, Doss can disrupt the opponent's backfield. |
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| Baxter's role was primarily as a producer, but he did direct a final re-make of Doss House, retitled Judgment Deferred and featuring a debut performance by Joan Collins. |
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