dog's-eared

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1. obsoleteObsolete form of dog-eared.

   He remembered all about the incident of the boxes, and from a wonderful dog’s-eared notebook, which he produced from some mysterious receptacle about the seat of his trousers, and which had hieroglyphical entries in thick, half-obliterated pencil, he gave me the destinations of the boxes.

   1879, Bram Stoker, chapter 20, in Dracula, London: Archibald Constable & Co., page 267

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   There were a couple of forms, notched and cut and inked all over; a small deal desk perched on four legs, at which no doubt the master sat; a few dog's-eared books upon a high shelf; and beside them a motley collection of peg-tops, balls, kites, fishing-lines, marbles, half-eaten apples, and other confiscated property of idle urchins.

   1841, Charles Dickens, chapter 24, in The Old Curiosity Shop

   1931, Conrad Aiken, Preludes for Memnon, XLI, in Selected Poems, Oxford University Press, 2003, p. 131, […] The carpet there, the table On which the dog's-eared Euclid with fixed stars, The cardboard battleship, the tops, the jackstones, And the long window lustred with changing rain, And the long day, profound and termless.