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Examples
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Mimsey dotes and Marsey dotes and how's your little TaTa?.
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We'd decided to go see 'The Last Mimsey' forgetting that this was Saturday and the theatre would be full of children.
Miss Manners Dave Hingsburger 2007
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Mimsey dotes and Marsey dotes and how's your little TaTa?.
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Mimsey, sorry to hear you had a bad experience with it, but the ratings on Amazon have far more 5 and 4 star ratings than bad ones.
Recipe for Pork Roast with Sage or Rosemary Herb Rub Kalyn Denny 2009
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"Going already, Mimsey?" she queried, -- then, in a lower tone, she said, "Well! what do you think of her?"
Thelma Marie Corelli 1889
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But they're of the _richest_ sort, and that's something, Mimsey!
Thelma Marie Corelli 1889
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On arriving at the Van Clupps ', they found no one at home -- not even Marcia -- so Lady Winsleigh drove her "dearest Mimsey" back to her own house in Kensington, and there left her with many expressions of tender endearment -- then, returning home, proceeded to make an elaborate and brilliant toilette for the enchantment and edification of Sir Francis Lennox that evening.
Thelma Marie Corelli 1889
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"Go along, Mimsey, -- go home to bed!" she exclaimed impatiently.
Thelma Marie Corelli 1889
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On the shorter ones I used sometimes to carry Mimsey on my back most of the way home (to please her mother) -- a frail burden, with her poor, long, thin arms round my neck, and her pale, cold cheek against my ear -- she weighed nothing!
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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He does not pay the slightest attention: he reaches the corner, followed low down by Gogo and Mimsey, who are beside themselves with generous envy and admiration.
Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865
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