"Doxy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... There," said he, tapping the door of the room in which was Madame d'Hocquetonville, "in there is a lady of the court and a friend of the queen, but the greatest priestess of Venus that ever was, and her equal is not to be found in any courtesan, harlot, dancer, doxy, or hussy. She was engendered at a moment when paradise was radiant with joy, when nature was procreating, when the planets were whispering vows of love, when the beasts were frisking and capering, and everything was aglow with desire. Although the women make ...
— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac
... daffodils begin to peer, With heigh! the doxy over the dale, Why, then comes in the sweet of ...
— Grain and Chaff from an English Manor • Arthur H. Savory |
