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noun

Don n.

Sir; Mr; Signior; a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes. "Don is used in Italy, though not so much as in Spain. France talks of Dom Calmet, England of Dan Lydgate."

A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities. (Univ. Cant) "The great dons of wit."

verb

Don v. t. (past & past part. donned; pres. part. donning) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with. "Should I don this robe and trouble you." "At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn."

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"Don" Quotes from Famous Books

... said Davy quickly, scrambling off the bed, convinced by Anne's tone that he must have said something dreadful. "I don't mind asking Him, Anne.—Please, God, I'm awful sorry I behaved bad today and I'll try to be good on Sundays always and please forgive me.—There ...

— Anne Of The Island • Lucy Maud Montgomery

... Algonquin women were told to burn their husbands and companions; and one of them obeyed, vainly thinking to appease her tormentors. The stoicism of one of the warriors enraged his captors beyond measure. "Scream! why don't you scream?" they cried, thrusting their burning brands at his naked body. "Look at me," he answered; "you cannot make me wince. If you were in my place, you would screech like babies." At this they fell upon him with redoubled fury, till their ...

— The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century • Francis Parkman

... growled Barras, glaring wrathfully from the bar. "I don't know what woman. His woman, I guess—anyways they got plumb away after we had him all seerounded, an' all over but the shoutin'—an' all on account of Timber City's got a marshal which his head's solid bone plumb through, like a rock; an' left ...

— Prairie Flowers • James B. Hendryx

... be," she wrote, "and how you must be enjoying it!" That day had been particularly cold and wet and windy, but the girls had worked right through it. When they had finished, they were damp and weary and only glad that it was time for tea. "I don't feel a bit patriotic," said the girl, "and I don't care if I never plant another potato." She was an artist and found farm life very different from sitting in a quiet studio. But planting potatoes was more helpful to her country and so the next ...

— Winning a Cause - World War Stories • John Gilbert Thompson and Inez Bigwood

... "They don't waste anything here," said the guide, and then he laughed and added a witticism, which he was pleased that his unsophisticated friends should take to be his own: "They use everything about the hog except the squeal." In front of Brown's General Office building ...

— The Jungle • Upton Sinclair

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