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  • Mungo is indeed working his bountifull butt off for the LP in NC.

    The resurgent LP 2008

  • The name Mungo has a marked currency in Strathearn.

    Chronicles of Strathearn John Hunter 1883

  • Go out recruit the best of them - visit Jordahill, St Andrews and Moray House now, offer a pay supplement if need be - but you won't, St Mungo is a fine school. great location - right next to Falkirk Grahamston Station - another story to tell your pupils, the area where you school stands, Grahamstoun, named after Sir John de Graham, Wallace's right hand man slain at Falkirk in 1298, buried in your local Kirk by his own men in risk of English retaliation - but they secured an amnesty such was his standing, even amongst the enemy.

    Whit, Nae History? - Dinna mess wi the Falkirk Bairns ! Alan Smart 2009

  • Go out recruit the best of them - visit Jordahill, St Andrews and Moray House now, offer a pay supplement if need be - but you won't, St Mungo is a fine school. great location - right next to Falkirk Grahamston Station - another story to tell your pupils, the area where you school stands, Grahamstoun, named after Sir John de Graham, Wallace's right hand man slain at Falkirk in 1298, buried in your local Kirk by his own men in risk of English retaliation - but they secured an amnesty such was his standing, even amongst the enemy.

    Archive 2009-03-01 Alan Smart 2009

  • And when Microsoft experimented with an online nature magazine called Mungo Park, named for the great explorer, they asked me to be their wildlife correspondent, beginning with a trip beyond the Arctic Circle to film and report on the caribou.

    One From The Hart Stefanie Powers 2010

  • "Why, whenever I go to feed him," said Mary Anna, "I call Mungo!

    Caleb in the Country Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Walter said, "I am afraid, Mungo, that is a bad omen," to which Park replied, smiling, "Friets (omens) follow those that look for them," and so they parted for ever.

    From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

  • At the age of twenty-five we find Kentigern (the name means "head chief", but he was popularly known as Mungo — in Cymric, Mwyn-gu, or "dear one"), beginning his missionary labours at Cathures, on the Clyde, the site of modern Glasgow.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • The elder Mr Park, also called Mungo, was a substantial yeoman of

    Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley William Henry Giles Kingston 1847

  • With this expression Mungo struck the spurs into his horse, and Scott never saw him again.

    Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa Mungo Park 1788

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