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"If you halve this, you'll be dormy, Captain Trevanion," said George Tresize, who seemed very anxious for him to win.

From All for a Scrap of Paper A Romance of the Present War by Hocking, Joseph

Proceedings in the lower dormy that evening were unusual.

From Years of Plenty by Brown, Ivor

The doctor, who was playing "three more," got "dormy" at the seventeenth with a beautiful quarter brassie backhander, which took the colonel in the lower chest.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir

Don't try experimental shots on a new system when your opponent is dormy.

From The Complete Golfer by Vardon, Harry

Elsie required only a short putt to win the hole and make herself "dormy," and Pip had laid her a dead stymie.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian