Doings

But to quit your political party because of a colleague's private doings is a bit of a stretch, and I daresay it's insulting to the electorate too. ❋ Jeff (2007)

His assistant, who carries the lamps, plates and what his superior describes as the rest of the doings, is smaller, meeker, of worse complexion and dressed in a blue serge suit. ❋ Unknown (1938)

Well might they call their doings "art," for they substituted art instead of nature. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)

At first he called the doings of the place dishonest; then he called them sharp practice; then he called them a little shady; then, close sailing; then he said this or that transaction was deuced clever; then, the man was more rogue than fool; then he laughed at the success of a vile trick; then he touched the pitch, and thinking all the time it was but with one finger, was presently besmeared all over -- as was natural, for he who will touch is already smeared. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)

Forth, where boys and girls recalled the doings of Robert Louis and his friends with bull's-eye lanterns and gunpowder, in that cheerful form known to Louis Stevenson as a 'peeoy,' and considered it a point of honour to do likewise, no matter how indignant such mischief made the authorities. ❋ Margaret Moyes Black (N/A)

The ideal perception of music, as being the true heart-expression of great men; and the ideal of our doings, which is the true heart-expression of ourselves. ❋ Thomas Tapper (N/A)

Mistress Mabel, who did not often talk, found her tongue now, and used it too, denouncing in the strongest terms the doings of the Parliament. ❋ Emma Leslie (N/A)

For days their doings were the topic of conversation. ❋ Apsley Cherry-Garrard (1922)

Without that daily report on the world's doings, which is the modern newspaper, we should for the most part be blind and deaf, and if not dumb, at any rate hardly able to speak above a whisper. ❋ Strachey, John St Loe (1922)

From their cheap little cottage, where they did their own work, they stepped out in their shabby garments and old-fashioned hats with heads even more proudly erect than in the old days when their home and their gowns and their doings were the admiration and envy of the town. ❋ Unknown (1912)

How often the bereaved one can find a cordial for the pain in recalling the doings and prowess of the departed! ❋ 1817-1893 (1907)

Milburgh had been shadowed day and night, and the record of his doings was a very prosaic one. ❋ Edgar Wallace (1903)

Their doings were the laugh and the amazement of every foreigner in the place. ❋ Unknown (1900)

It recalled the doings of the people of the Tyrol in their struggle against Napoleon. ❋ Unknown (1900)

Some of the pages of this manuscript journal are torn out, and thus some of the doings are a mere matter of conjecture. ❋ Unknown (1891)

I can see no reason for believing that my doings are the slightest interest to Him, or that ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)

They recalled their doings with devout gusto and a sort of rational pride. ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)

When he found, to his great surprise, how much his doings were admired, he answered one of the committee who had sought him out, "Indeed, sir, I am not doing this for men but for the Master above." ❋ Unknown (1864)

"Hello Uncle [Philip], where are you off to today?" "I've got to go down the doings later to see about getting some money back on the shoes I bought. They don't fit right." "[Good luck with that] Uncle." "Thanks. Tell your mother I'll [pop in] and see her next week after I've got back from the doings down your road." "Will do." ❋ LiberaceHudson (2017)

Don't [sit] on that [bench], it's [covered] in birds' doings. ❋ David From Kingsbury (2003)

Teacher: Who knows what the walking [bass line] is? Student: Does it go "do do do do do do do do"? Teacher: [IT does] [well done] ❋ Emma Swan Bitch (2018)

we [did the do] ❋ Church Hill Bruh (2003)

And you're standing at the [chemist] in Boots Coughing [up your guts] like you're at deaths door All this for a [packet] of Do-Dos ❋ Clifftoru (2009)

[im] [finna] [go pick] up some do do ❋ Fotweny (2004)

Nigga1:[Ay] Homie! can you [get that] do do? Nigga2:yea $20 [a g]. ❋ Reppin Screwston (2006)

stacy: why are katie and mark taking so long to get the movies [out of the basement]? [kristen]: i [guarantee] theyre doing the do down there. ❋ Xxomgthisisisisxxx (2010)

❋ Ms. Young (2003)

"Yeah, my boyfriend and [I are] getting pretty serious." "[Oh, I see]. [Have you done] The Do yet?" ❋ Zevahc (2013)