mumpers

But to tell the truth, I don't know that sympathy with the mumpers was the prevailing sentiment at the Corners. "

The Merryweathers Laura Elizabeth Howe Richards 1896

Widows and other destitute women known as “mumpers” went begging with two-handled pots into which they received the wheat.

Archive 2008-12-01 Joanna Waugh 2008

Widows and other destitute women known as “mumpers” went begging with two-handled pots into which they received the wheat.

Christmas Gift-Giving Joanna Waugh 2008

But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

But I must tell you that the vicar of Jambert ascribed this copious prolification of the women, not to that sort of food that we chiefly eat in Lent, but to the little licensed stooping mumpers, your little booted

Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

Mine were a very bad lot -- British (except the twelve native mumpers), including some brave Canadians.

Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Anonymous

He paused by the second and ushered me into a sleeping-chamber, which, though narrow, was comfortable enough -- a vast improvement, at any rate, on the mumpers 'lodgings I had been used to for many months past.

I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

"They 're mumpers," said Miss Sandus, pushing the cake-stand towards him.

The Lady Paramount Henry Harland 1883

She belonged to a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East counties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by these tramps: she called them mumpers, and made faces when she spoke of them.

Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

She belonged to a Hampshire gipsy tribe, and had been on a visit to a relative down in the East counties, who died on the road, leaving her to be brought home by these tramps: she called them mumpers, and made faces when she spoke of them.

The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 2 George Meredith 1868