Lexicographical Neighbors of Murphies
Literary usage of Murphies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas by Herman Melville (1892)
"... as on the strength of his being one, he had promised to have such easy times of.
it, and very likely, too, at my expense. CHAPTER LIX. THE murphies. ..."
2. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"'Tis there the turf is, And lots of murphies, Dead sprats, and herrings, And
oyster-shells ; Nor any lack, oh ! Of good tobacco, Though what is smuggled By ..."
3. Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life, During a Four Months' Residence in a by Herman Melville (1850)
"The rich, tawny soil seemed specially adapted to the crop; the great yellow
murphies roiling out of the hills like egg! from a nest. ..."
4. Sketches of Life and Character: Taken at the Police Court, Bow Street by George Hodder (1845)
"... of (human) nature and art may fiee as many murphies -with black eyes as would
serve to'convince him that Irish fruit will flourish in the rankest soil, ..."
5. Through Green Glasses. Andy Merrigan's Great Discovery and Other Irish Tales by Edmund Downey (1887)
"... or the " murphies," as he called 'em afther Captain Murphy that brought 'em
over from Virginny ... an' there they'd form a ring an' boil the murphies in ..."
6. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1856)
"... and just at dinner time too : an' ye love me Jack (as you are going below,)
ye'll shovel out a decent lot of it, with a due proportion of the murphies, ..."
7. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"(2) adj. foggy; close and wet; dark, applied to the weather. Mull, sb. a mess ;
something spoiled. murphies, sb. pl. potatoes. ..."
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