21 Verbs to Use for the Word doles

No sooner do they arrive in a place than they are anxious to know what amusements it affords; just as though they were beggars asking where they could receive a dole!

It is a symptom of approaching famine that beggars are perforce refused their daily dole.

Thus do I punish those that come into the greenwood to deal dole to me.

They received direct relief from the ERA until May, 1934, when the ERA changed the dole to work relief.

Some time after, an attempt was made to discontinue this dole, which caused the populace to assemble, who forced the same to be continued; at which time it was distributed to about fourteen thousand people, nine thousand of whom were supposed to reside in Walsall.

But when the curate has administered words of consolation and dropped the small silver dole in the palm, when his shovel-hat and black frock-coat tails have disappeared round the corner of the copse, then in a single second he drops utterly out of mind.

It gives a hundred-weight of coal and five pounds of beef once a year to a family whose head could earn a hundred such doles if Christian justice allowed him fair wage for the work he performs.

She is a cottager, and has been to fetch the weekly dole of parish bread that helps to support herself and infirm husband.

cur te non mortalem factum et universi orbis regem fieri non doles? 3565.

[Footnote 14: Few of the many sad pictures in the Satires of Juvenal are more pitiable than that of the wretched "Quirites" struggling at their patrons' doors for the pittance which formed their daily dole.

All the scenes and passages which did not square with the littleness of his own taste, he wished to place to the account of interpolating players; and he was on the right road, had his opinion been taken, of giving us a miserable dole of a mangled Shakespeare.

The master could not reduce it below that standard without impairing his property as well as lessening its immediate return; and as a rule he could shift none of the charge to other shoulders, for the public would grant his workmen no dole from its charity funds.

The old mill, with its race and sluice-gates, still grinds wearily the scanty dole of grain fed into its hoppers and Silas Caldwell takes his toll and earns his modest living just as his father did before him and "Little Bill" Thompson did before him.

She bewailed also the fate of Helen, making great dole and sorrow, with many shrill cries.

well he doth seek to beguile thee, but stay within the greenwood lest we all meet dole and woe.

Prec., 162, where a parishioner of Burstead Parva (Essex) is cited at a visitation for ploughing up a dole (a balk or unploughed ridge), which marked the boundary line between Burstead and Dunton parishes.

For the future then we must consciously work for the building upward from primary units, so completely reversing our present practice of creating the big thing and fighting hopelessly to preserve such small and few doles of liberty and personality as may be permitted to filter downward from above.

But the sturdy Scotchman accepted no dole; he set himself to work out his own salvation.

The hero threw the dole on the bedroom floor, and in a speech bristling with personalities, consigned the committee to perdition.

That excellent divine, Schleiermacher, exalted this document of the Rights of the Flesh as "a pæan of Love, in all its completeness," but it is a feeble, tiresome performance, absolutely without structure, quite deserving the saucy epigram on which it was pilloried by the wit of the time: Pedantry once of Fancy begged the dole Of one brief kiss; she pointed him to Shame.

Sir John Hawkins affirms that the benefaction distributed at Lambeth Palace gate, is to this day called the dole.]

21 Verbs to Use for the Word  doles