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  • noun Alternative form of mulo.

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Examples

  • If she wur alive her livin 'mullo' ud follow the crwth.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • 'I promised to bring her livin' mullo, 'said Sinfi,' and I have kept my word, and now we are all going up to the top together. '

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • 'You and the livin' mullo that you made me draw for you by my crwth down by Beddgelert -- the livin 'mullo o' Winnie Wynne. '

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • If she was dead, she wouldn't hear it, but if she was alive she would, and her livin 'mullo [Footnote 2]' ud come to it, 'said Sinfi.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • The moment I sat down in this Ring a mullo [spirit] come and whispered in my ear, but I can't make out whether it's my mammy or Fenella Stanley, and I can't make out what she said.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Was I really to accept as true this fantastic superstition about the crwth and the spirits of Snowdon and the 'living mullo'?

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • You wants dear Sinfi to fiddle the Gorgie's livin 'mullo back to you.'

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Getting up and pouring the boiling water from the kettle into the teapot, 'Something tells me,' she went on, 'that when I touch my crwth to-morrow, and when I sing them words by the side of Knockers' Llyn, you'll see the picture you want to see, the livin 'mullo o' Winnie. '

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Dey follows the crwth when a Romany Chi plays it as I nows very wel, but de chavi wot play on the crwth, shee must love the living mullo she want for to come, and de living mullo must love her. '

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • I wonder whether they can draw a livin 'mullo up to the clouds, same as my crwth can draw one to Snowdon?'

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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