In France they do not wait for the completion of the years of adolescence to dub a scion of the royal family with the title of "man.

And that Minute, the most renoun'd Don Gulielmo Roderigo de Chimeny Sweperio, became your Gally-Slave,I say no more, but that I do love,and I will love,and that if you are but half so willing as I, I will dub you, Viscountess de Chimeny Sweperio.

Rub-a-dub, dub, Three men in a tub, The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker, They all jumped into a rotten potato.

Rub-a-dub, dub, Three men in a tub, The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-Maker, They all jumped into a rotten potato.

Gie me ae spark o' Nature's fire, That's a' the learning I desire; Then, tho' I drudge thro' dub an' mire At pleugh or cart, My Muse, tho' hamely in attire, May touch the heart.

Weel-mounted on his gray mare Meg, A better never lifted leg, Tam skelpit on thro' dub and mire, Despising wind and rain and fire; Whiles holding fast his guid blue bonnet, Whiles crooning o'er some auld Scots sonnet, While glow'ring round wi' prudent cares, Lest bogles catch him unawares: Kirk-Alloway was drawing nigh, Whare ghaists and houlets nightly cry.

Dub, puddle.

The constable was crumpling to the ground, his body slack and inert, while the giant slashed at him with a dub of firewood he had snatched from the ground.

The philosophers, you know, and the physiologists, the followers of that coquin, Mesmer, and the bêtes Spiritualists, as they now dub themselves,these have written, talked, and speculated much about it.

Thus our costume is complete; and I doubt if Buckingham sported the diamond tags of Anne of Austria with more satisfaction than do we our novel and odorous decoration: we dub ourselves the Light Guard on the instant.

He gave the bell for safe keeping and carriage, to Runan aforesaid, i.e. son of the king of Rome, and this is its name in Ireland"The Duibhin Declain," and it is from its colour it derives its name, for its colour is black [dub].

Mother will dub me Oloff, and little Kitty calls me nothing but uncle.

You know this kind of thing doesn't really happennot to a dub like me.

As fishermen came but rarely, the fish were in countless numbers; and in such a galaxy there were bound to be few misguided fish that did not know a sportsman's tackle from a dub's.

"It's worth something to bring it up here, you dub," Ezram informed his young partner, when the latter accused him of profiteering.

Ravenscroft's play, which is a bald translation from the "Bourgeois Gentilhomme" of Molière, was successful, chiefly owing to the burlesque procession of Turks employed to dub the Citizen a Mamamouchi, or Paladin.

3 makes Silence sing the following scrap: "Do me right, And dub me knight: Samingo.

p. 47.) has "Monsieur Mingo for quaffing doth surpass, In cup, in can, or glass; God Bacchus, do me right, And dub me knight, Domingo" T. Warton, in a note in vol.

O, honey lub, my turkle dub, Doan' you hyuh my bawnjer ringin', While de night-dew falls an' de ho'n owl calls By de ol' ba'n gate Ise singin'.

They'll call me poetry monger and then dub Me rustic rhymer, anything they choose, Ay, anything at all, but heaven's immortal muse.

He should name her 'The Giantess of Beaujeu'; and the little half-witted Dauphin he should dub 'Knight of the Princely Order of House Rats.'

"Food for the devil, they dub us in the Palatine church," she added, yawning, till I could see all her small, white teeth set in rose.

the whole breed o' black Campbells from Perth to Galway and Fonda's Bush, which ye dub Broadalbin.

In short, that feeling of distrust and discrimination against the outside world, which, in the 18th century, led a Lancashire vestry to dub all outsiders "foreigners," is already fully developed by the end of the 16th century.

Early the next morning the King with Bismarck, Roon, and Moltke rode out and took up their positions on the hill of Dub, whence they could view what was to be the decisive battle in the history of Germany.