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  • How often have I mouched over it, alone and dreamy, adjusting my steps to the cracks between its pavement-flags!

    Tell England A Study in a Generation Ernest Raymond 1931

  • We got three pairs of the uncle's, and one that had belonged to the housekeeper's grandfather, but nine pairs were needed, because Albert-next-door mouched in one half-holiday and wanted to join, and said if we'd let him he'd write a paper on the Constitutions of Clarendon, and we thought he couldn't do it, so we let him.

    New Treasure Seekers Edith 1925

  • The man flung off the saddle and his horse mouched away.

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • Then, while its recent burden gathered himself up, quite unhurt and smiling amiably in relief, the horse contentedly mouched off toward a patch of inviting grass.

    The Forfeit Ridgwell Cullum 1905

  • We got three pairs of the uncle's, and one that had belonged to the housekeeper's grandfather, but nine pairs were needed, because Albert-next-door mouched in one half-holiday and wanted to join, and said if we'd let him he'd write a paper on the

    New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune 1891

  • We _mouched_ as far as Boulogne, where Baron James Rothschild has a charming place called

    In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

  • A while ago I took a holiday; mouched, played truant from my road.

    The Roadmender Michael Fairless 1885

  • Well, they sort of mouched after me, and I tells a policeman and he says, O they were only three poor niggers and they wouldn't hurt me.

    Plays of Gods and Men Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany 1917

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