"Mooch" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... vun of the useful troibe O' rustic volk, I be; And writin' gennelmen due descroibe The doin's o' such as we; I don't knaw mooch o' corliflower plants, I can't tell 'oes from trowels, But 'ear me mix ma consonants, An' moodle ...
— Modern British Poetry • Various
... uplondish toun, whear the match is made for a quart of good ale, or like the play in Robin Cookes scole (a fencing school), whear, bycaus the punies may lerne, thei strike fewe strokes but by assent and appointment. I hard sum men say, it did mooch augment their suspicion that wey, bycaus at the battail they sawe these prikkers so badly demean them, more intending the taking of prisoners, than the surety of victorye; for while oother men fought, thei fell ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3) • Walter Scott
... low an' wretched, as I mooch about the deck, That I'm ripe for jumpin' over — an' I wish there was a wreck! We are driven to New Zealand to be shot out over there — Scarce a shillin' in our pockets, nor a decent rag to wear, With the ...
— In the Days When the World Was Wide and Other Verses • Henry Lawson |
