"Muggur" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... what 'longs to avarice. It is the honour of nobility To keep high-days and solemn festivals; Then to set their magnificence to view, To frolic open with their favourites, And use their neighbours with all courtesy; When thou in hugger-mugger[134] spend'st thy wealth. Amend thy manners, breathe thy rusty gold; Bounty will win thee ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... Next, your son gone; and he most violent author Of his own just remove: the people muddied, Thick and and unwholesome in their thoughts and whispers For good Polonius' death; and we have done but greenly In hugger-mugger to inter him: poor Ophelia Divided from herself and her fair judgment, Without the which we are pictures or mere beasts: Last, and as much containing as all these, Her brother is in secret come from France; ...
— Hamlet, Prince of Denmark • William Shakespeare [Collins edition]
... hugger-mugger I managed to discern before Captain Pomery left the helm and hurried forward to give us ...
— Sir John Constantine • Prosper Paleologus Constantine
... pointed out to a raw hand, by the raw hand's experienced fellow-townsman, as "that beast Lewisham—awful swat. He was second last year on the year's work. Frightful mugger. But all these swats have a touch of the beastly prig. Exams—Debating Society—more Exams. Don't seem to have ever heard of being alive. Never goes near a Music Hall from one year's end ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... [HUGGER-MUGGER, says Dr. Richardson, is the common way of writing this word, from Udal to the present time. No probable etymology, he adds, has yet been given. Sir John Stoddart (Ency. Metropolitana, vol i. p. 120.) has given a long article ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 206, October 8, 1853 • Various
... to him, he was wide awake, his face sober, his aureole of bright hair damp with the heat. But at the sight of his playfellow his four new teeth came suddenly into sight. Here was "Mugger," the unfailing solace and cheer of his life. He gave her a beatific smile, and seized the bottle with a rapturous "glug." Bert was roused by her laughter, and the soft ...
— Undertow • Kathleen Norris |
