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  • At the Restoration, the street bullies were called Muns and Tityre Tus; they were next called

    Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

  • Well, I hope all you Muns, Momys, and Beat Moms complete with beret, bongos, and espresso? had a happy Mother's Day.

    Proud Mamas 2010

  • Scourers, Hectors, Muns, or Tityriti, prowled the streets abusing and beating every man and woman they met -- "sons of Belial flown with insolence and wine;" where turbulent apprentices set upon those the

    Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881

  • The Muns and Tityre Tus had given place to the Hectors, and the Hectors had been recently succeeded by the Scourers.

    The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

  • Self defended his use of the quote and told the Dallas Morning News that he did not intend to link Muns to Nazism, but said his opponent "was using the method."

    statesman.com - Highschool 2010

  • "Muns, that door still isn't closing," La Follette senior Will Simmons told Munson one recent chilly morning at the homebuilding site.

    Madison.com - top 2008

  • Mr. Mun quarrel'd with him about a Bitch and Pupy, call'd him Jack-a-napes, with other opprobrious names, threatened to cut him cross the face with his sword: upon it Jekyl threatened to make a passage through Muns.

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

  • When I hear such base, skeldering, coistril propositions come from the counsellors of your grace, and when I remember the Huffs, the Muns, and the Tityretu's by whom your grace's ancestors and predecessors were advised on such occasions, I begin to think the spirit of action is as dead in Alsatia as in my old grannam; and yet who thinks so thinks a lie, since I will find as many roaring boys in the Friars as shall keep the liberties against all the scavengers of Westminster.

    The Fortunes of Nigel Walter Scott 1801

  • Scowrers, an old rake thus boasts of his early exploits: — “I knew the Hectors, and before them the Muns, and the Tityretu’s; they were brave fellows indeed!

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

  • Muns’ partner in Savath & Savalas is Scott Herren, best known for his downtempo hip-hop, recorded under the Prefuse 73 pseudonym.

    Disquiet » Best CDs of 2004 2004

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