He is a huge, fat, religious gentleman ... big enough to be a pope.  His gills are as rosy as a turkey-cock’s.  His big belly walks in state before him, like a harbinger; and his gouty legs come limping after it.  Never was such a tun of devotion seen.—­Dryden, The Spanish Fryar, ii. 3 (1680).

DOMINIE SAMPSON.  His Christian name is Abel.  He is the tutor at Ellangowan House, very poor, very modest, and crammed with Latin quotations.  His contsant exclamation is “Prodigious!”

Dominie Sampson is a poor, modest, humble scholar, who had won his way through the classics, but fallen to the leeward in the voyage of life.—­Sir.  W. Scott; Guy Mannering (time, George II.).

DOM’INIQUE (3 syl), the gossiping old footman of the Franvals, who fancies himself quite fit to keep a secret.  He is, however, a really faithful retainer of the family.—­Th.  Holcroft, The Deaf and Dumb (1785).

DOMITIAN A MARKSMAN.  The emperor Domitian was so cunning a marksman, that if a boy at a good distance off held up his hand and stretched his fingers abroad, he could shoot through the spaces without touching the boy’s hand or any one of his fingers. (See TELL, for many similar marksmen.)—­Peacham, Complete Gentleman (1627).

DOMIZIA, a noble lady of Florence, greatly embittered against the republic for its base ingratitude to her two brothers, Porzio and Berto, whose death she hoped to revenge.

  I am a daughter of the Traversari,
  Sister of Porzio and Berto both ... 
  I knew that Florence, that could doubt their faith,
  Must needs mistrust a stranger’s; holding back
  Reward from them, must hold back his reward.

Robt.  Browning, Luria, iii.

DON ALPHONSO, son of a rich banker.  In love with Victoria, the daughter of Don Scipio; but Victoria marries Don Fernando.  Lorenza, who went by the name of Victoria for a time, and is the person Don Alphonso meant to marry, espouses Don Caesar.—­O’Keefe, Castle of Andalusia.

[Illustration] For other dons, see under the surname.

DONACHA DHU NA DUNAIGH, the Highland robber near Roseneath.—­Sir W.
Scott, Heart of Midlothian (time, George II.).

DONALD, the Scotch steward of Mr. Mordent.  Honest, plain-spoken, faithful, and unflinching in his duty.—­Holcroft, The Deserted Daughter (altered into The Steward).

Donald, an old domestic of MacAulay, the Highland chief.—­Sir W. Scott, Legend of Montrose (time Charles I.).

DONALD OF THE HAMMER, son of the laird of Invernahyle of the West Highlands of Scotland.  When Green Colin assassinated the laird and his household, the infant Donald was saved by his foster-nurse, and afterwards brought up by her husband, a blacksmith.  He became so strong that he could work for hours with two fore-hammers, one in each hand, and was therefore called Domuil nan Ord.  When he was 21 he marched with a few adherents against Green Colin, and slew him, by which means he recovered his paternal inheritance.