Great barkers be no biters, so it do seem; doff your coat, Cap'n Aglionby!
Then bewildered but blindly obedient, he began to doff his alpagartas, rough corduroys, and sheepskin zamarra.
It was his infamous plan to doff the policeman's uniform and steal out at night dressed to resemble the bandolero, Jacinto Quesada.
And now Lord Fitzosborne will be pleased to doff the armour he has so kindly assumed for our sakes, and we will all bowne ourselves for the banquet.
But now, boys, doff your bonnets and sound the mort.
Our appetite's not gone Because we've learn'd to doff Our caps, where we were used to keep them on.
Ho, ye Who loved our Flag Only because there flapp'd none other rag Which gentlemen might doff to, and such be, 'Save your gentility!
The others jewellers turned to him and said: Benvenuto is the glory of our art, and it is only due that we should doff our caps to him and to his foils.
That ass Gaio exclaimed that if I made a foil like that he would gladly doff his cap to it.
The Caliph was astounded at her quickness and understanding, and said to the rhetorician, "Doff thy clothes.
But he was silent awhile and made no reply: so she cried "Doff thy clothes and I will expound them to thee.
But he was silent and made no reply; whereupon the Caliph bade her expound and ordered him todoff his clothes and give them to her.
The physician was silent awhile in perplexity and his colour changed and he bowed his head and made no reply; whereupon she said to him, "Ho, sir doctor, speak or doff thy dress.
There then they sat to meat unarmed, for the Sage had said to them: "Doff your armour; ye shall not come to handystrokes with the Utterbol Riders.
Woe from Wit" counts rather as a specimen of talented social satire than as a model comedy, and in its type, this comedy of Griboyédoff also bears the imprint of the French stage.
Griboyédoff was greatly irritated by his failure to obtain proper public recognition of his comedy.
No one who had "saved up" such a costume as the Bride had for the first rainy day together, could reasonably be expected to doff it for yellow oil-skins.
Grant with the border of her sleeve she hide her brows and doff Her ornaments, how shall she do her scent away from her?
The appearance of Madame Milovídoff released Arátoff from the necessity of replying.
The women doff their petticoats, and make a present of them to the Matangi, and the mistress of the house gives her the cloth she is wearing.
The men, however, with strange inconsistency, dofftheir sacred threads, and replace them by new ones after a bath.
So turn thy face to the door, the while I doff my dress and go down into the well and fetch it.
FN#196] So do thou doff thy jewellery and clothes and I will keep them for thee, till thou hast made thy pious visitation.
Doff thy dress and ground thine arms gear and dismount thy destrier and be off with thy life!
If God's protection cover me and Fortune be but just And Fate with her whom I adore unite me once again, I'll doff my clothes, that she may see how worn my body is, For languishment and severance and solitary pain.
But he was silent and made no reply; whereupon the Khalif bade her expound and ordered him to doff his clothes and give them to her.
Quoth the other, "There is no help for it but that I journey to Baghdad with merchandise, else will I doff clothes and don dervish gear and fare a-wandering over the world.
And he wept and lamented; but she said, "Doff thy trousers and lie down on thy face, or I will strike off thy head.
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