The honestest man in the nation," as Goldsmith said of him in a doggerel riddle which he wrote.
Now, elbows on bar, he began to bellow out a lone doggerel ditty for his own exclusive benefit.
Their characteristics are thus described in a doggerel verse: "The Bundelas salute each other from miles apart, their pagris are cocked on the side of the head till they touch the shoulders.
This has given rise to the following doggerel rhyme about them: Pani se Panka bhae, bundan rache sharir, Age age Panka bhae, pachhe Das Kabir.
He had drawn it through the doggerel with impatience, for he suddenly realised that he had told a deep, deep secret to the paper.
II Only to compare the value of Michael Angelo's sonnets with that of the doggerel rhymes which Dürer produced, may give us some idea of the portentous inferiority in Dürer's surroundings to those of the great Italian.
Perhaps you would abolish the doggerel of crackers, and substitute therefor extracts from the Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin!
And this ceremony is continued until the whole table is surrounded by preposterous headgear, and doggerel verse is lying by every plate.
You open your half of the packet, and discover some doggerel verse which you read aloud, and also a perfectly idiotic coloured cap, which you put on your head to the end of looking foolish.
I am afraid that great Numbers of those who admire the incomparable Hudibras, do it more on account of these Doggerel Rhymes than of the Parts that really deserve admiration.
I must subjoin to this last kind of Wit the double Rhymes, which are used in Doggerel Poetry, and generally applauded by ignorant Readers.
As this strange doggerel was sung the masked students danced fantastically around Gus Plum, slapping him with their swords and clubs.
This, which at first, seemed to portend much mischief, in the end, proved a fortunate incident.
It is a yard long, and was undoubtedly written by the same dish-washer who wrote that doggerel on his shirt.
Written in lines of three characters to each, and being in doggerel rhyme, it is easily committed to memory, and is known by heart by every Chinaman who has learnt to read.
Official proclamations on public business can hardly be classed as wall literature, except perhaps when, as is not uncommon, they are written in doggerel verse, with a view to appealing more directly to the illiterate reader.
That he should have been drawn out of his shell to the extent of roaring out ungrammatical doggerel in a public assembly of his fellow-citizens, was a powerful proof of the tremendous force of party enthusiasm.
None of the young men and maidens catalogued in the Christmas doggerel I shall speak of, presently, intermarried.
In the doggerel verses beneath this cartoon, it is very plainly hinted that "old Sarah," and the Opposition, were in league with the Stewarts.
She was proud of being a fairy, and looked so nice that I put together the above nursery doggerel to please her, and in honour of the event, little thinking that she would soon leave this world.
I shall never forget that Mr. Cross did not belie his name, however, or that Sam Clemens wrote a bit of doggerel about him.
Verse quotations may be taken from a well-known poem, a popular song, a nursery rhyme, or even doggerel verse.
One day Ben signed teetotal, and I remember I wrote a few lines of doggerel on the occasion.
It was about this period I began to spend a good deal of time in writing doggerel and rhyme for publication in the local press.
This is no better verse, and possibly no worse, than much of the adolescent doggerel that is so often preserved by fond parents to prove that their child early gave signs of poetic and literary genius.
There is preserved in the pocket-books of some old printers in the West the galley proof of a doggerel rhyme read by him at the printers' banquet, at St. Joseph, Mo.
Some of the best poets who have lived wrote mere doggerel when they began.
In these dens were manufactured treasonable works of all classes and sizes, from halfpenny broadsides of doggerel verse up to massy quartos filled with Hebrew quotations.
The broadsides under notice give representations of the fair held on the Thames, and describe it in doggerel verse.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doggerel" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
