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Examples
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Ferocious Mopes is a highly pleasing album, but I think Numbers and Mumbles is better, if you're thinking of purchasing.
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Mary Mopes Dodge, of St. Nicholas, wrote time and again, and finally said:
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When I learn that the Marquis of Mopes has been "entertaining" his friends, the Duke of Drearyshire,
Kate Coventry An Autobiography G. J. Whyte-Melville
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Its centre object was a dwelling-house, sufficiently substantial, all the window-glass of which had been long ago abolished by the surprising genius of Mopes, and all the windows of which were barred across with rough-split logs of trees nailed over them on the outside.
Tom Tiddler's Ground Charles Dickens 1841
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It was a nook in a rustic by-road, which the genius of Mopes had laid waste as completely, as if he had been born an Emperor and a Conqueror.
Tom Tiddler's Ground Charles Dickens 1841
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And it was curious to find, as Mr. Traveller found by stopping for a new direction at this farm-house or at that cottage as he went along, with how much accuracy the morbid Mopes had counted on the weakness of his neighbours to embellish him.
Tom Tiddler's Ground Charles Dickens 1841
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A mist of home-brewed marvel and romance surrounded Mopes, in which (as in all fogs) the real proportions of the real object were extravagantly heightened.
Tom Tiddler's Ground Charles Dickens 1841
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I love the Harmony of Foreign Courts; your downright _English_ Women are meer Mopes, sit dumb like Clocks that speak but once an Hour, supinely Grave and insolently Sullen, nor Smile but on good terms to Laugh, at us for Life:
The Fine Lady's Airs (1709) Thomas Baker 1704
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Mopes who say they want to move on, but still whingeing and cryin and gerning about inquiries about anything that doesnt involve them.
A Tangled Web 2010
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Sheldon Mopes/Smoochy the Rhino in Death to Smoochy (2002)
Listal promoted 2009
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