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  • 'Mustn't rush into me being anything more to you than a convenient screw?

    High Society Elton, Ben 2002

  • 'Mustn't let them think us quite incapable,' Mrs Barrable had said when she came back from her shopping, and she and Dick and Dorothea between them had folded up the awning and stowed it in the forepeak, and lowered the cabin roof, and washed down the decks with the mop and generally done their best to make the Teasel look as if she were ready for a voyage.

    Coot Club Ransome, Arthur 1934

  • 'Naughty, naughty!' saysh I. 'Mustn't tell talesh.

    Torchy and Vee Sewell Ford 1907

  • I couldn't roll on the floor and still watch the clip, but - after the 'Mustn't run with scissors' moment set me off - the neighbours may well have been wondering what all the merriment was.

    Word Magazine - Comments 2009

  • Den de old man say he cut de flesh off de bones ob dat nigger; but de young one say: 'Mustn't do dat.

    With Lee in Virginia A Story of the American Civil War 1867

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