dozyphrase

Updated: May 18, 2025

"And of course you claimed it?" asked Dozyphrase. "Of course I did nothing of the sort," retorted the General. "I trust I am not so lacking in manners. I merely remarked its beauty and quaintness and massiveness and general artistry.

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes & Co. : Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth

William Darlington Ponkapog, the poet, whose epic on the "Reign of Gold" is one of the longest, and some writers say the thickest, in the English language; James Whistleton Potts, the eminent portraitist, whose limnings of his patients have won him a high place among the caricaturists of the age, Robert Dozyphrase, the expatriated American novelist, now of London, whose latest volume of sketches, entitled Intricacies, has been equally the delight of his followers and the despair of students of the occult; and, what is more to the purpose of our story, Major-General Carrington Cox, U.S.A., retired.

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes & Co. : Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth