dog's-eared

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dog's-eared (comparative more dog's-eared, superlative most dog's-eared)

  1. Obsolete form of dog-eared.
    • 1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop[1]:
      There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.
    • 1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula[2], London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267:
      He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.
    • 1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131,
      [] The carpet there, the table
      On which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars,
      The cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones,
      And the long window lustred with changing rain,
      And the long day, profound and termless.