Your behaviour is all of a piece, and convinces me how much I ought to despise a heart which can doat upon an idiot; though I know not whether I should not admire her cunning more than her simplicity: wonderful both!
No, my Sophia, if cruel fortune separates us for ever, my soul shall doat on thee alone.
We build castles in the air, and night-dreams are our daily idols that we doat on.
O if I could doat as much upon Himself as I do upon His love.
Let us learn to turn our eyes off men, that our whorish hearts doat not on them, and woo our old Husband, and make Him our darling.
Are there not Jews enough in Malta, But thou mustdoat upon a Christian?
Lines: 4-6 To doat on those that lov'd not and to fly Love that woo'd me.
I say ladies do never believe they are fair, till some fool begins to doatupon them.
I perfectly doat on her, and my Affection to her gives me all the Anxieties imaginable but that of Jealousy.
Methought I should be wiser next, And would a patriot turn, Began to doat on Johnny Wilks, And cry up Parson Horne.
Pr'ythee, tell me what thou canst find to doat on in these Castilians?
Our sex is nothing but weakness, and I have the greater difficulty in defending myself because the enemy that attacks me pleases me; I doat on the danger which threatens; how then can I avoid yielding?
We cannot say love is a poison and a drunkenness till we are illuminated by Grace; in the meantime it is an evil we doat on.
It is most wonderful that she should so doat on Benedick, whom she in all outward behaviour seemed ever to dislike.
Few can doat upon the distant flowers of the sky as many of us doat upon the flowers at our feet.
The colonel hath kept Miss Matthews ever since, and is at length grown to doat on her (though now very disagreeable in her person, and immensely fat) to such a degree, that he submits to be treated by her in the most tyrannical manner.
Why should I doat upon a man deserves not, Nor has no will to work it?
Lady, as you are mine, I am yours, I giue away my selfe for you, anddoat vpon the exchange Beat.
If he do not doat on her vpon this, I wil neuer trust my expectation Prin.
The consequences are too horrible: I doat upon Antonia, but am not so blinded by lust as to sacrifice for her enjoyment my existence both in this world and the next.
I may mix my breath with his; I may doat upon his features, and He cannot suspect me of impurity and deceit!
Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.
They love not like the Vulgar, 'tis the immortal Part they doat upon.
I doat on her to distraction; nor have I any cause to complain of, more than this obstinacy in her temper; whatever she asserts, she will maintain against all the reason and conviction in the world.
Doat has said, "A potter can no more express himself without his kiln than can a violinist without his violin," and yet there are some who try to make out by sending their work to some nearby pottery to be burned.
Taxile Doat in his admirable treatise[P] that it will be unnecessary to go deeply into the matter, but in order that the reader may be aware of what is involved, some description of the technique will be given.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doat" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
