We will only add some description of the persons who have signed the remonstrance and who are the following: Adrian van der Donk has been about eight years in New Netherland.
Director Stuyvesant has kept him twenty-nine months out of the meetings of the council, for the reason among others which His Honor assigned, that he cannot keep secret but will make public, what is there resolved.
An Utrecht man, he came out as book-Keeper in 1633, and served in that capacity under Van Twiller.
Adew; as now na langar dwell I may: The donk nycht is almaist rollyt away, And the fers Orient wil at I withdraw; I feil the ayndyng of hys horssys blaw.
An hour later Mr. Van der Donk called with his daughter to compliment the boys on their services of the night before, and to thank them personally for what they had done.
Jack now recognized the voice as that of the nurse who had taken the Van der Donk child from him the night before, but he was still at a loss to know what she was talking about.
Then Mr. Van der Donk replied, and said all that he had said before, prating on till the boys began to yawn and to shift their feet from one side to the other, for they had been standing all this time, and were very tired.
Perhaps it will be well to ask Mr. Van derDonk if he has missed the watch.
After supper Jack suggested to Percival that they go up to the Van der Donk house and see the nurse, as they might learn more about the man who had claimed the watch.
The boys were in sight of the Van der Donk house by this time, but as they had no intention of calling they turned around and went back to the camp where they met Jack and his two friends just coming ashore.
The donk rapidly absorbed three bottles, while the distracted "Gyppies" tugged and wailed, "No gude!
The donk swayed and stumbled, his ears cocked at all angles, and his expression happy and foolish.
Little drops of water, Little grains of dirt, Make the roads so muddy Donk won't take a spurt.
I managed, however, to get the duck; the donkgot the ducking.
He lay under Coxey with one eye open, ready to vacate at a second's warning, for that donk pretended he was going to lie down every moment.
He had strolled to the next corner to make the acquaintance of a prepossessing donk of the opposite sex, and my faithful dog, conscious of his responsibilities, was doing his duty.
In a short time both donk and dog were comfortably stabled, and I was introduced to the family.
Meantime Mynheer Von Donk was making every inquiry in his power for Captain Stenning, or any of the survivors from the massacre on board the Dolphin.
I do not say that Mynheer Von Donk was destitute of human sympathies; but he had gone out to that far from agreeable place to make money, and money he was resolved to make by every means in his power.
This, in the course of a couple of hours, produced Mynheer Von Donk himself, to ascertain what was required of him.
He's got all the biggest, and Ike is a huge big donk of a fellow.
That's what Jack does, like a donk at a thistle when he can't eat any more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "donk" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
