"Mufti" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... desire better than a good boat-hook, and could make a special good target of that there tin sconce that holds the candle—mayhap any blacksmith will hammer me a skull-cap, d'ye see, out of an old brass kettle; and I can call my horse by the name of my ship, which was Mufti." ...
— The Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves • Tobias Smollett
... him again and thought how glad he must be to get into mufti for a few days. I tell you this to show how unprejudiced I was. The only other signs of life were the two super-aborigines who inhabit the croquet patch and detest all other mankind. I approached one of them ...
— Punch, Volume 153, July 11, 1917 - Or the London Charivari. • Various
... still one of those able-bodied young shirkers in mufti that patriotic old gentlemen in clubs are always writing to ...
— The Title - A Comedy in Three Acts • Arnold Bennett
... approaching midnight and the "owl train" leaves within the hour; and they hang about the stairways waiting for her reappearance, and hover in mysterious fascination about Captain Ray as he comes in his travelling suit of mufti, and wonder why he should discard his uniform and sword, and the carriage is now at the door, and great store of rice and old slippers are got in readiness, and presently down the broad stairway she comes, metamorphosed as to raiment, but radiant, winsome as ever; and they seize upon ...
— Marion's Faith. • Charles King
... the grand Turk has his Mufti, so other Mahomedan princes have their chief priests in ...
— A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Vol. VIII. • Robert Kerr
... but it's sick. It's got a nauseous dose of verbiage to spew up—something it's swallowed—something about being too proud to fight.... My brother and I couldn't stand it, so we came to France.... He was in the photo air service. He was in mufti—and about two miles up, I believe. Six Huns went for him.... And winged him. He had to land behind their lines.... In mufti.... Well—I've never found courage to hear the details. ...
— Barbarians • Robert W. Chambers |
