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  • Why would you mock such a touching tribute to the mud-pies of childhood?

    Five Awesome Things 2010

  • Still another shows a little kid in a park making mud-pies out of you guessed it.

    O To Be A Dog In Paris! 2007

  • I'd told him no of course, partly because it didn't ring any bells, but also, partly, because in MY mind, I had not been making mud-pies at all and had in fact, been making mud BRICKS which I fully planned on using to build myself an adobe type structure in our backyard.

    not to worry impetuousme 2006

  • My father once took me in a back bedroom because he'd asked me if I had been making mud-pies out front.

    not to worry impetuousme 2006

  • Sensible people will stop making mud-pies in the pig-sty. muirgeo

    Ammann at AGU: If You Had One Question.. « Climate Audit 2006

  • Children are there, making mud-pies, nurses upon the seats chattering with the military, lovers promenading, holding hands.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • When they came into this land, and found a place in which to settle down, clever Shomolekae mixed earth into mud just as boys and girls do in order to make mud-pies, but he made the mud into the shape of bricks, and then placed the bricks of mud out into the sun to dry.

    The Book of Missionary Heroes Basil Mathews

  • Well, after all the errands were over, Marmaduke collected some shingles, and all the cups and tins in which the Three Happy Children made mud-pies.

    Half-Past Seven Stories Robert Gordon Anderson

  • Mary, the good old cook, who had been in the house years before Zay was born, had actually refused to let her make any more mud-pies on her kitchen window; and mamma and grandma had sided with the enemy.

    Connor Magan's Luck and Other Stories M. T. W.

  • Sturdy little men they are; so strong and fair and stout, that I should be glad to kiss them even when they have come from the dirtiest depths of their mud-pies.

    The Nursery, September 1877, Vol. XXII, No. 3 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers Various

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