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"Doff, dog, doff," he hissed, "when a monarch deigns to lower his eyes to such as you!"--then spurred through the underwood and was gone, with a gleam of steel shoes and flutter of dead leaves.

We had taken a good deal of trouble to teach ourselves the kindly German custom of saluting all strangers with doffed hat, and we resolutely clung to it, that morning, although it kept us bareheaded most of the time a nd was not always responded to.

He wore a high square yellow cap of a peculiar fashion, assigned to his nation to distinguish them from Christians, and which he doffed with great humility at the door of the hall.

WHEN Alexander the Great saw the size of hi s domain he wept - for there more worlds to Even the most hard-to-impress cavemen doffs his furry cap to a man who conquered most of the known world before dying aged 33.

HUNKn Becksina skintight surf suit and, right, chunkier sidekick Gordon SUPPING IN SYNC J At basketball game in May HEAD BOY J Gord doffs cap to Becks I WILL FOLLOW J On Jimmy Kimmel; and pair in their matching outfits

I think that Prospero dons and doffs this Neoplatonic bias at will; looking at Alonso, Antonio, and Sebastian, he knows what, in Macbeth, King Duncan says after betrayal by the original Thane of Cawdor: "There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face."

When a man of such bulk and wearing such headgear doffs, you stay doffed.'