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Examples
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Mopsa is to reign there, so you had better say no more about it.
Mopsa the Fairy 1910
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"Mopsa," said Jack, "you are very naughty; if you behave in this way, I shall never take you out to parties again."
Mopsa the Fairy 1910
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"Mrs. Ingelow is, to our mind, the most charming of all living writers for children, and 'Mopsa' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks.
Slow and Sure The Story of Paul Hoffman the Young Street-Merchant Horatio Alger 1865
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"Miss Ingelow is, to our mind, the most charming of all living writers for children, and 'Mopsa' alone ought to give her a kind of pre-emptive right to the love and gratitude of our young folks.
Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag VI An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving, Etc. Louisa May Alcott 1860
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Some of the actors did double duty very capably: Desmond Barrit, a larger-than-life Bottom, sang the part of the Drunken Poet who wanders into the wood and gets pinched by fairies; and Mr. Burt, here making a specialty of hilarious cross-dressing, was Flute/Thisbe as well as the falsetto Mopsa.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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It includes a bumptious duet for the shepherd Coridon (Andrew Foster-Williams) and his coy mistress Mopsa (Robert Burt, dressed like a British matron), who emerge from a giant haystack, and ends with a gleeful orgy by a warren of choristers in bunny costumes.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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It includes a bumptious duet for the shepherd Coridon (Andrew Foster-Williams) and his coy mistress Mopsa (Robert Burt, dressed like a British matron), who emerge from a giant haystack, and ends with a gleeful orgy by a warren of choristers in bunny costumes.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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Some of the actors did double duty very capably: Desmond Barrit, a larger-than-life Bottom, sang the part of the Drunken Poet who wanders into the wood and gets pinched by fairies; and Mr. Burt, here making a specialty of hilarious cross-dressing, was Flute/Thisbe as well as the falsetto Mopsa.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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Some of the actors did double duty very capably: Desmond Barrit, a larger-than-life Bottom, sang the part of the Drunken Poet who wanders into the wood and gets pinched by fairies; and Mr. Burt, here making a specialty of hilarious cross-dressing, was Flute/Thisbe as well as the falsetto Mopsa.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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It includes a bumptious duet for the shepherd Coridon (Andrew Foster-Williams) and his coy mistress Mopsa (Robert Burt, dressed like a British matron), who emerge from a giant haystack, and ends with a gleeful orgy by a warren of choristers in bunny costumes.
Long Night's Journey Heidi Waleson 2010
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