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Advice To A Little Girl. James McIntyre	And they'll call you a dowdy if you are plain, But do what is right, let that be the test, Then proudly hold up your head...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Aunt Dorothy's Lecture Ada Cambridge	They were so grandly dress'd, And I so dowdy; and yet, and yet, I thought he liked me...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Bee Hovering Irbab Younis Hakim	Dredge out, the dowdy winter, Dopamine, in the attic, sinter, Let gravity dour wherever it leads, So, the seeds...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Catafalques David Plantinga	These somber monuments enhance What would be dowdy...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Country Pubs Clarence Michael James Stanislaus Dennis	The waitress dowdy, Comes like an avenging fate Snatching at the greasy plate Soggy cabbage; soapy 'spuds' ...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Forsaking All Others Part 1 Alice Duer Miller	And spends her life agreeing, Thin and dowdy and pale, And getting paler and thinner Well, the point of this dreary tale Is I've asked...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Forsaking All Others Part 4 Alice Duer Miller	He cannot love that dowdy middle-aged...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
In The Days Of Crinoline Thomas Hardy	- Her spouse the vicar, gardening, said, 'Too dowdy that, for coquetries, So I can hoe at...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Route Marchin' Rudyard Kipling	While the Big Drum says, With 'is "~rowdy-dowdy-dow!~" -- "~Kiko kissywarsti~ don't you ~hamsher argy jow?~"* * Why don't you get on? Oh,...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
Sonnet XXXI: Methinks I See Michael Drayton	That every dowdy, every trull, doth...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Prophecy Of Famine Charles Churchill	Landscapes, unknown to dowdy Nature, rise, And new creations strike our wondering...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)
The Shepherd's Week : Wednesday; or, The Dumps John Gay	No huswifry the dowdy creature knew, To sum up all, her tongue confess'd the...	Rate it (0.00 / 0 votes)

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