Lexicographical Neighbors of Mools
Literary usage of Mools
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scottish Gallovidian Encyclopedia by John Mactaggart (1876)
"... the mools o' the lane kirk-yard ; my family is a' there afore me, a' but ane,
and he's awa by the ..."
2. Northumberland Words by Richard Oliver Heslop, Harry Haldane, Oliver Heslop (1894)
"The bairn down in the mools, my dear, O saft and saft sleeps she ; I would the
mools were ower my head, And the young bairn just wi' me, my love, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1894)
"O saft and saft sleeps she; I would the mools were ower my head, And the young
bairn just wi' me, my love, And the .young bairn just wi' me. ..."
4. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"Or worthy friends rak'd i' the mools, Add. to Toothache ... He wha could brush
them down to mools, To W. Creech. Moon. Where th' howlet mourns in her ivy ..."
5. The Poetry of Robert Burns by Robert Burns (1897)
"mools, crumbling earth, dust: 'worthy frien's laid i' the ... 19; 'he wha could
brush them down to mools,' ii. 54. 17. meddle: 'gars me moop wi' the servant ..."
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