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How To Use doss In A Sentence

• Robert Dossie described three categories of watercolor painting — miniature, the most delicate; distemper, which is coarser, uses less expensive colors in a glue or casein binder, and is appropriate for canvas hangings, ceilings, and other interior decorative painting purposes; and fresco. reference As a technique practiced by the Romans, fresco painting was a subject of particularly interest in the antiquity-obsessed eighteenth-century. The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
• The chimney, usually of lath and plaster, ending overhead in a cone and funnel for the smoke, was so roomy in old cottages as to accommodate almost the whole family sitting around the fire of logs piled in the reredosse in the middle, and there they carried on their winter's work. The Life of Thomas Telford
• On many dossiers, the pace of law-making could easily advance "very fast", says the ambassador.
• They played around it as children, dossed around it as teenagers, brought weekend visitors to take pictures around it whenever they came to stay.
• The PM has compiled a dossier on solicitors who put innocent soldiers through years of anguish. The Sun
• If she was this careful and I was fool enough to admit that I dossed in the park she'd probably stick me in some garret over her stables, with that businessman of hers counting the teaspoons every time I went for a pee. The Vatican Rip
• In this role he had responsibility for compiling intelligence dossiers on its enemies; for planning counter-espionage and for establishing and supervising fascist cells operating in the trade union movement.
• In other words, it cannot be overlooked in the lawsuit of not using delivery of dossier and the lawsuit of both libelant and paraclete proof-providing.
• If he were not afraid of him he would long ago have evicted him from the dosshouse. Creatures That Once Were Men, and other stories
• The inquiry was launched four months after Gotham published a scathing dossier. Times, Sunday Times