d-o-l

Updated: May 9, 2025

Then I showed her the doll and spelled the word again, holding the doll toward her as I held the cake. She made the letters "d-o-l" and I made the other "l" and gave her the doll. She ran downstairs with it and could not be induced to return to my room all day. Yesterday I gave her a sewing-card to do.

Helen Keller - The Story of my life; with her letters (1887-1901) and a supplementary account of her education, including passages from the reports and letters of her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, by John Albert Macy

There's nothing on the right, I think, but here on the left is something like our cut D-o-l dol, p-h-i-n phin, Dolphin Inn. "Coach to Canterbury, Deal, Margate, sir, going directly," interrupted him, and reminded us that we had got to the end of the pier, and ought to be descending. Two or three coaches were drawn up, waiting to carry passengers on, but we had got to our journey's end.

Robert Smith Surtees - Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities