Lexicographical Neighbors of Mooley
Literary usage of Mooley
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Peck's Sunshine: Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun by George Wilbur Peck (1882)
"Now, the elder and the girl knew in a moment that they were not looking for a
mooley cow, but that they were scoffers, and when they asked the elder if he ..."
2. May Blossoms by Lilian, Lilian Taylor (1890)
"mooley. PRETTY brown cow, with your large lustrous eyes, Gazing so tranquilly up
at the skies, What are you thinking of, mooley-cow, say ? ..."
3. National Kindergarten Manual: Containing Practical Model Lessons by Mrs. Louise Pollock (1888)
""From the good mooley cow! Sure enough, but he has not time to milk the cow himself,
... And mooley, how does she get her supper? She does not like milk, ..."
4. Calendar of Ancient Records of Dublin: In the Possession of the Municipal by Dublin (Ireland), Rosa Mulholland Gilbert, John Francis Weldrick (1904)
"'We, the committee appointed for better supplying Report, the city with pipe
water, to whom the petition of James mooley was referred, inform your honours, ..."
5. On the Cosmic Relations by Henry Holt (1914)
"I want to see the mooley-cow,—where is the mooley- cow? ... Take me to see the
mooley-cow. [She used to be taken almost daily to see the cow. ..."
6. The Attaché: Or Sam Slick in England by Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856)
"... so as most to overtake us, when jist as I come to the bars of the cow yard,
over went mooley, like a fox, brought me whap up agin 'em, which knocked all ..."
7. Glossary of Supposed Americanisms by Alfred Langdon Elwyn (1859)
"This has dropped from the human race to cows, and soa-mooley, may be heard at
every milking. ... Whether mooley comes from mulier, I leave to the learned. ..."
8. The Howells Story Book by William Dean Howells (1900)
"No; they're kind of mooley." The little girl asked the papa, " What makes Pony
Engines mooley ? " for she did not choose to be told by her brother; ..."
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