"Mussy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in church I'd have kept them at home. Mrs. Daniels always had the carpet greasy with cake crumbs wherever she sat, and mother didn't think the Lord liked a dirty church any more than we would have wanted a mussy house. When I had Bobby and Hezekiah settled I took my text from my head, because I didn't know the meeting feeling was coming on me when I started, and I ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter
... mussy now upon us, An' keep 'way some our neighbors from us. For w'en dey all comes down upon us, Dey eats m[o]s' all our victuals ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley
... full of mussy things, and the wash-bowl was dirty, and there weren't any clean towels," the girl ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... gazed at the grimy cuffs of my blouse, and felt of my dishevelled hair. "Oh, I'm afraid I can't go. I look so mussy. Haven't ...
— Dawn O'Hara, The Girl Who Laughed • Edna Ferber
... very unexpected; but Mrs. Tulrumble only ejaculated 'Lor-a-mussy!' once again, as if a Mayor were a mere ordinary Christian, at which Mr. Tulrumble ...
— Sketches by Boz - illustrative of everyday life and every-day people • Charles Dickens
... out and went into the house, Joy feeling as mussy as only a girl can who has been away from home all day. She followed the curious-minded ...
— The Wishing-Ring Man • Margaret Widdemer
... This?" She held up a mussy looking white muslin, trimmed with coarse embroidery and some ...
— Patty and Azalea • Carolyn Wells
... Malines. There were, to my own actual personal knowledge, more than thirty in the Dioceses of Namur, Tournai, and Liege—Schlogel, parish priest of Hastiere; Gille, parish priest of Couvin; Pieret, curate at Etalle; Alexandre, curate at Mussy-la-Ville; Marechal, seminarist at Maissin; the Rev. Father Gillet, Benedictine of Maredsous; the Rev. Father Nicolas, Premonstratensian of the Abbey of Leffe; two brothers of the same abbey; one brother of the Congregation of ...
— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various
... mussy on a poor ole niggur, an' bring her safely to her journey's end, for mussy dese chillun hab none!" ejaculated Aunt Susan, as another sharp curve was so rapidly turned that the very trees and fences seemed rushing madly ...
— Harper's Young People, February 10, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... you had only married!... After all you had plenty of chances. Your three cousins, Mussy, d'Emboise and Caorches, are noblemen of good descent, allied to the best families, fairly well-off; and they are still anxious to marry you. Why do you refuse them? Ah, because miss is a dreamer, a sentimentalist; and because her ...
— The Confessions of Arsene Lupin • Maurice Leblanc |
