mammets

“It was hardly a time to play with mammets or to tilt with lips, and it seemed that the matter might wait.”

Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic

“Page 21 old Frenchman here would say; we all have our crosses in love as in war; and, besides, this is no time to play with mammets, or to tilt with lips!”

The British Partizan: A Tale of the Olden Time. By a Lady of South Carolina

“This is no world to play with _mammets_, or to tilt with lips.”

Notes and Queries, Number 213, November 26, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.

“I suppose there's some sense to that, since many weedy, half-faced mammets will still opt for mutual funds, no matter how much common sense I try to beat into them.”

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