It generally came in the form of a grin or a nod of the head, sometimes merely in a pointing gesture to the crimson-crossed comfort bag, that the big and blushing doughboy carried hung upon his wrist.
A piece of fairyland" was the name that a doughboy with a touch of sentiment gave to the canteen at Nevers.
A big doughboy came and sat down beside her, another across the narrow table from her.
The great difficulty with the first five of these American Red Cross doughboy hotels was their extreme popularity.
Finally the beginning of the end for the average doughboy in France--that long anticipated and seemingly never-arriving day of departure in the troopship for home.
Her experience with the doughboy has been large and so her tribute to the high qualities of his manhood is of very real value.
Frequently I have seen the doughboy in Paris as well as in the other cities and towns and in our military camps in France.
Early in the progress of the conflict our Red Cross foresaw the great necessity that would be coming for its acting as a medium of communication between the doughboy and his folks--three thousand miles or more away.
As she went into the long hospital car a woundeddoughboy raised himself on one elbow and shouted to all his fellows: "Hi, fellows, I told you that a Red Cross girl would be here, and here she is.
The six-foot doughboy from California knew that she came from some small town in the Sierras.
For how about that good-looking doughboy from down in the Ozark country somewhere, who arrived in Paris on a day in the autumn of 1918 with the express intention of matrimony, if only he knew where he could get the license?
What makes you so sure that Count von Herzmann--" The door was thrown open by a helmeted, muddy doughboy sergeant from the lines.
Then into the room, followed by the mud-spattered doughboy and the M.
Occasionally a doughboy would get a glimpse of a Boche gunner.
Back on the hills south of Fismes, the Pennsylvania artillery all this time had been earning the right to rank in the Iron Division glory roll along with their doughboy comrades.
The doughboy liked the "Ausies"; he despised the "Tommie.
With all the panegyrics on the American doughboyduring and since the war, not enough has been said or can ever be said about him.
On the other hand, nobody ever heard the enthusiastic doughboy mention a mistake made by the more limited forces of the Salvation Army, which therefore received more than adequate commendation for its really effective work.
A doughboy remarked to me just before the battle of the Selle River, "We're held up by a little stream twenty feet wide, with Jerry on top of the railroad embankment on the other side.
Jimmie strolled in, and there was a doughboy with whom he had had some chat on the transport.
Perhaps the most vivid impression of Jimmie's whole life was the relief he had felt when he realized that some doughboy had shot a bullet into that looming figure.
Well, I hadn’t time to load my iron before he gathered uponDoughboy like a Virginny blood mear, and the nigger give himself up for a gone sucker, and fainted away.
Being off duty, they were reveling in that popular martial pastime known to the Tommy as "grousing" and to the Yankee doughboy as "airing a grouch.
It's good-by to the cleanest, whitest pal that a poor dub of a doughboy ever had.
You should have seen how neat them rapid fire machines begun unbuttonin' those big wooden spools, specially after a couple of our doughboy squad, who'd worked pneumatic riveters back home, took hold of the drills.
I do not believe there is a doughboy anywhere who does not speak of it with enthusiasm and affection.
The sisters looked sleepily at one another, thinking simultaneously of the poor homesick doughboy who had told them the day before that chopping wood for them made him think of home and mother and that was why he liked to do it.
Oh, that's all right," said the doughboy nonchalantly.
At any other time he might have felt the pertinence of the suggestion, but here was a case where a doughboy captain, bedad, had instigated the measure for the comfort of his men.
The Twelfth have been swearing like pirates at having another doughboy saddled on 'em," chuckled Captain Perkins, himself a doughboy.
The new captain is knocking out the old abuses," said they, and it was wonderful how soon the ex-doughboy made his way into their good graces.
When the doughboy wanted eggs, for instance, he wanted them badly, and that was all there was to it.
The doughboy loves marching to music, with flags flying and the populace cheering.
Yesterday I had to witness the harrowing spectacle of a stalwart doughboy being separated from a tooth.
As we took our departure down the hill I noticed a darky doughboy in a group who were drilling.
An old doughboy sweetheart of the lady’s, it appears, had returned on leave and they were going travelling together.
Now a hungry doughboy can take the edge off his appetite with a paper full of hot French fries in return for a franc at any hour of the day.
If every American could have been miraculously whisked out of France the day after the armistice was signed the doughboy would likely have been to this day a bit of a popular French idol.
The doughboy passes everywhere by virtue of the magic words, “no compree.
As Bok was walking with an American officer, the latter pointed to a doughboy crossing the road, followed by as disreputable a specimen of a pig as he had ever seen.
Let me see," said Bok, and the doughboy took him in with the pig following close behind.
Here the doughboy rests the French Arab soldier with whom He fought side by side at Soissons.
I hope, however, they may serve as a record of doughboy types, of the people he lived with in France, with whom he suffered and by whose side he fought.
At Annapolis there has been a poster, showing a big American sailor with a doughboy on his back, and underneath the words, 'We put them across.
Of course it was enough to make a proper American doughboyentirely "hot under the collar.
But why, months and months afterwards, when everything was over, did that foolish doughboy in the hospital hug this lone thing to his memory?
It was an unending matter for disgust to the doughboy that it took him so long to learn to hurry.
His officers began their course with a battalion of French troops to aid them, and they were put into company formation, of about 75 men to the company, just as the humble doughboy was.
About this time the day of the doughboy was a pattern of compactness, though he called it a harsher name.
March day, and went down to see for himself and all the Americans at home how the doughboy was faring, and what could be done for him.
But once the bombs were thrown, every other doughboy would straighten up in his trench to see what he had hit.
If the doughboy was doing nothing else, he might be sitting alone somewhere, feeling of his feelings, and finding them very sad.
Graciously as he might accept them, the holding of them was much as a doughboy might hold his first armful of live grenades.
I saw a doughboy sitting in front of the Café de la Paix one bright afternoon.
The former doughboy knows the tricks of the enlisted man and he is determined that nobody shall put anything over on him.
The longer stride gives the doughboy an uneven gait.
Now Doughboy is a name which the soldiers use, but strictly speaking, it refers only to an infantryman.
He had hardly started to snore when there was a knock and a doughboy came in to complain that he had sore feet and what should he do.
These little village cafés did no harm after the first brief period when the American soldier had his fling and they served the good purpose of encouraging fraternization between doughboy and poilu.
When half a dozen had appeared from behind the cloud one doughboy could stand the strain no longer.
I was looking at one of those stakes," a doughboy told me, "and I kept alooking and alooking and all of a sudden it grew a pair of shoulders and a helmet and I let go at it.
The doughboy didn't say anything, but the nurse who made the rounds that evening wondered why a patient who was doing so well should have a pulse hitting up to ninety-six.
One doughboy would raise himself up on his elbows and look about.
A youthful doughboy was lying flat on his back wondering just how long it was going to be before supper time came round when all of a sudden there was a clatter at the door.
I was in a base hospital one day when a doughboy came in all gory about the head.
The doughboy was afraid it was going to be some more nurses and doctors.
He turned and started to run, but a doughboy fired and hit him in the leg and another soldier's bullet came through his back.
Three minutes later, while the rain was coming down in torrents a laughing young doughboy carrying slickers on his arm climbed to the plane’s cabin to thrust in his head for a look.
His music didn't sound to me like doughboy music," Mary observed at last.
She wouldn't chuck dad for that doughboy piano tuner.
Seems the doughboy had taken an English girl to a baseball game, and, after it was over, was eager to make sure that she had understood and appreciated the great American game.
Elsie Janis danced so gracefully that, after she had alighted from a perfectly stunning flip-flop, a doughboy in the third row was heard to remark: “Just like a wheelbarrow I saw in the air after a high explosive hit near it.
So that fella's Lank, the great ball player," you can hear one doughboy say to another.
They have also brought along all their collections of patent knives and scissors, the only thing they left behind being the doctors' bills that would take a year's service as a doughboy to meet the first instalment.
It was a doughboy who called for the package later in the day and who handed it to Grace on the street according to arrangement.
The doughboy did so shamefacedly, while his companions laughed uproariously.
There are many others more worth while, sir,” she made reply, turning to hand a doughboy a bar of chocolate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doughboy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: doughboy; redcoat; soldier
