"Muggins" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Muggins, a neighborin cheat, Thowt to diddle owd Tommy wad be a girt treat; He'd a horse, too, 't were war(3) than owd Tommy's, ye see, For t' neet afore that he'd thowt ...
— Yorkshire Dialect Poems • F.W. Moorman
... boy, well-bred, quiet, and amiable. James and I had a good comfortable chat, the boys being at Gattonside House. I am glad to see him bear up against misfortune like a man. "Bread we shall eat, or white or brown," that's the moral of it, Master Muggins. ...
— The Journal of Sir Walter Scott - From the Original Manuscript at Abbotsford • Walter Scott
... haunted. She said it had 'a reputation', but somehow or another it did not seem to impress me much. That night Miss S—— and her brother dined here; they were very pleasant, and talked away hard, and we played card games, such as 'Old Maid' and 'Muggins.' We went to bed feeling quite happy, saying we had never been in such an unghostly house before. The bed was quite comfortable, and we lay talking quite happily, but could not sleep, and were ...
— The Alleged Haunting of B---- House • Various
... "Well, very well—then freely as I drink I spoke my thought—you take me—what I think. And, sir, said I, if I a Freeman be, It is my bounden duty to be free." "Ay, there you posed him: I respect the Chair, But man is man, although the man's a mayor; If Muggins live—no, no!—if Muggins die, He'll quit his office—neighbour, shall I try?" "I'll speak my mind, for here are none but friends: They're all contending for their private ends; No public spirit—once a vote would bring, I say a vote—was then a pretty thing; It made a man to serve his country ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe
... pleasure as it gives Angelina to learn how many towels and table-cloths go into Seraphina's wedding-outfit, so much, yea, more, swells in Cherubella's bosom at being able to present to her friend this apple from the tree of knowledge. The worthy Muggins finds no small consolation for the loss of his overcoat and umbrella from the front entry in the exhilaration he experiences while relating to each member of his ever-revolving circle of friends the details of his loss,—the suspicion, the search, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 • Various
... around here when we could all be having good times in England whilst we was waiting to find out whether Mary Jane's got it or not? Why, you talk like a muggins." ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... nettles in March, And eat muggins [Mugwort] in May, Sae mony braw young maidens Wad na' ...
— Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure • William Thomas Fernie
... the maxum of it. Master Muggins. What, though I am obligated to dance a bear, a man may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison, if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes—'Water Parted,' or ...
— The Intellectual Development of the Canadian People • John George Bourinot |
