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  • While regard for the strictest truth will not permit it to be stated that much rest was obtained from her method of carrying out Miss Eliza's command; still, she remained in her room with every appearance of obedience and intervals were spent on the "squshy" green sofa, when she could have talked and talked to Ross and Elinor the entire afternoon without the slightest hint of fatigue.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • And green, a soft, dull green, was chosen for the side curtains of those sunny windows, and for the sofa cushions and the upholstery on the window seats and the "squshy" chairs.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • Back in high school, there was a large squshy orange in my bedroom wastebasket.

    EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - It’s ExtraLife Science Thursday 2008

  • "Grid's squshy manner would get him anywhere he wanted with the skirts, even if he didn't have the looks to back it up," commented Mr. Watts, with inward dryness, of the meeting.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • For the shaped sandwich -- leaf or star, or heart, or crescent, is the happy home, generally, of all the fifty-seven varieties of fancy sandwich fillings, sweet and sour, mushy and squshy, which make an honest mouthful of natural flavor, a thing of joy.

    Dishes & Beverages of the Old South Martha McCulloch-Williams

  • His clothes stuck tight to him, and his shoes made a squshy sound, wherever he stepped.

    The Voyage of the Hoppergrass Edmund Lester Pearson 1908

  • When the flies bit him he broke off the branch of a tree and used it as fly-whisk; and he made himself a new, cool, slushy-squshy mud-cap whenever the sun was hot.

    Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • And how lonesome she must be there all by herself in such a nasty, moist, mushy-squshy old swamp!

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

  • Presently, once more he came flapping to the mushy-squshy marsh, where he found Miss Heron just ready to go to sleep.

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

  • Be off, I say, to your mushy-squshy, rheumaticky bog.

    The Curious Book of Birds Abbie Farwell Brown 1899

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