"Dos" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surprize at finding such humanity in a gaol in misfortunes; adding, to let him see that I was a scholar, 'That the sage ancient seemed to understand the value of company in affliction, when he said, Ton kosman aire, ei dos ton etairon; and in fact,' continued I, 'what is the World ...
— The Vicar of Wakefield • Oliver Goldsmith
... pair sank into silence, only broken by sundry "How d'ye dos?" and "Good mornings!" interchanged with their friends, till ...
— Night and Morning, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... roadways continually falling off in excellence. Here are M. Cormier's own words: "Mais, par exemple, comme routes, Dieu que c'est mauvais! Malgre cela, j'y retournerai; le pays vaut la peine que l'on affronte les cailloux, les ornieres, les dos d'ane at les derapages sur le sol mouille, comme ...
— The Automobilist Abroad • M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
... roily and dirty, and no doubt had fever in it. The only animals we saw were monkeys and alligators, and there were parrots in the trees. The farther we went down the stream the wider it became, and the current slacker so that we moved more slowly with the same amount of rowing. At a place called Dos Hermanos (two brothers) we could see a little cleared spot near the bank, which seemed to be three or four feet above the water. There were no mountains nor hills in sight, and the whole country ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... them in prison but thea got out was conveyed by a black man, he told them he wood bring them to my hows, as he wos told, he had ben ther Befor, he has com with Harrett, a woman that stops at my hous when she pases tow and throw yau. You don't no me I supos, the Rev. Thomas H. Kennard dos, or Peter Lowis. He Road Camden Circuit, this man led them in dover prisin and left them with a whit man; but tha tour out the winders and jump out, so cum back to camden. We put them throug, we hav to carry them 19 mils and cum back the sam night wich maks 38 mils. ...
— The Underground Railroad • William Still
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