Colonel John Dooly was murdered in the presence of his family by a band of Tories.
Colonels Elijah Clarke and John Dooly untiringly guarded the frontiers, which were continually threatened by the Tories and Indians.
He was sustained in this charge by Dooly and Clarke, and the enemy after fighting with great bravery, retired across the creek, but were rallied by Major Spurgen on a hill beyond, where the battle was again renewed with fierceness.
Colonels Elijah Clarke and John Dooly of Georgia, with Pickens of South Carolina, nearly annihilated a band of plundering Tories at Kettle Creek.
I am now Post Master at Confedrit × Roads, and am dooly installed in my new position.
We hev bin dooly subjoogated some time, and a waitin for this.
It lay exposed for purchase on Fox's shelf for some months, until, in December, 1895, a tailor named James Dooly visited the shop to redeem a silver watch.
Dooly took it home, played upon it as the spirit moved, and whenever in need of ready money brought it back to Fox as security, always redeeming it in time to prevent its sale.
I had the dooly lifted into a room, which I had had cleared out, where he was much quieter.
The orderly, a large powerful Sikh, carried him in his arms out of danger, and got a dooly and brought him back to Banks's House, where his wound was looked to and dressed.
Placed in a dooly he was sent back to the surgeons, but his wound was mortal.
In the alarm caused by the rush of the enemy's horsemen he had left his doolyand mounted his horse undressed and bareheaded as he was.
After we had proceeded a few coss, the bearers of the dooly put it down, saying that they could not get on in the dark and the mud, and proposed to wait till daylight.
Ane dooly sesoun to ane cairfull dyte Suld correspond, and be equivalent.
This dooly dream, this ugly visioun Brocht to ane end, Cresseid fra it awoik, 345 And all that court and convocatioun Vanischit away.
A prayer prayed proper, and prayed by them as ain't plaguein' the Lord constant about their souls an' other diseases, is always dooly regarded.
The lady still lived, when they lifted her out of the dooly and laid here upon as soft and easy a bed as the house afforded.
The path was rugged and stony, and the pony he rode (for which the dooly had been exchanged beneath the pass) climbed but slowly, and he was obliged to rest him occasionally, while he turned round to enjoy the mighty prospect.
Away with him to the Droog; no matter how he is carried thither, the meanest tattoo, the meanest dooly is enough.
Attendants were absent; supplies unobtainable; there was no alternative but to carry my sick wife from her dooly and place her alongside the sick officer.
Then it was that from her doolythe pale, emaciated form emerged.
When her removal became practicable, she proceeded by dooly dâk towards Murree, then newly established as a hill station and sanatorium.
He is by them placed in a dooly and so dispatched to hospital.
Judge Dooly calmly informed Judge Tait by letter that he had no sort of objection to the publication, provided it was at Tait's expense.
Illustration: Judge Dooly 250] Judge Dooly was not a student while practicing at the bar.
Judge Dooly made the comment, "If he is mad, I wish the same mad dog that bit him would bite me.
A story is told of Judge Dooly and Tom Peter Carnes, another rare humorist, that fairly illustrates the statement made in the beginning of this chapter in regard to the plain and democratic character of the people who settled Middle Georgia.
It has been told in these pages how Colonel John Dooly was dragged from his bed by the Tories and murdered.
On the morning of the second day, when Judge Dooly came to the table, Mr. Pig was in his old position.
Once, when dining at a public table, Doolysaid something or did something to irritate Major Freeman Walker.
Pickens and Dooly also pressed through the swamp, and the battle was renewed with great vigor.
In answer to this insinuation, Judge Dooly declared boldly that he was ready to fight his adversary on anything like equal terms.
On one occasion, Judge Dooly had been challenged by Judge Tait,--the same Judge Tait who had made himself so obnoxious to General John Clarke.
Naturally this remarkable proposition made Judge Tait madder than ever, and he wrote to Judge Dooly that he intended to publish him as a coward.
The latter, remarking that he had borne with the liberties taken by Judge Dooly quite long enough, said he proposed to resent them then and there.
Colonel Dooly was the father of Judge Dooly, who became famous in Georgia after the war.
On this account it was that, upon a memorable occasion, Doolydeclared that Troup's mouth was formed by nature to pronounce the word Yazoo.
It was long years after, and when Mr. Forsyth was in the zenith of his popularity, that the friends of Dooly proposed his name for the Senate of the United States.
When the meal was concluded, Doolyasked if all were done.
Dooly was a native of Lincoln County, Georgia, where he continued to reside until his death, and where he now lies in an undistinguished grave.
Dooly was an opponent of Crawford through life--a friend and intimate of John Clark, Crawford's greatest enemy.
As a wit, Dooly never had an equal in the State, and there might now be written a volume of his social and judicial wit.
Like Mr. Crawford, Judge Dooly relied more upon the practical good sense of the people as jurors, for justice between man and man, than upon the technicalities of the law; and especially upon that of special juries.
Dooly was upon the bench of this circuit, and was the intimate friend of Wilson Lumpkin, an elder brother of Joseph H.
Dooly was less facile: his convictions were honest and strong, and he clung to them.
No one ever charged upon Dooly the sin of a participation in this speculation, or the frauds through which it became a fixed fact, as a law of the State, by legislative act.
Dooly was present, and remarked to a friend that he was the only man he ever knew to be beaten who ran without opposition.
Judge Dooly was much beloved by the younger members of the Bar, to whom he was ever kind and indulgent, associating with them upon his circuit, and joining in all their amusements.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dooly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
