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Definition of Mumbles
1. mumble [v] - See also: mumble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mumbles
Literary usage of Mumbles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Great Britain: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm) (1897)
"At (3 M.) Black Pill is the mumbles Road Station of the LNW Railway. ...
The mumbles (*Ship $ Castle; George; lodgings) is a small watering-place which has ..."
2. The Ports, Harbours, Watering-places, and Coast Scenery of Great Britain by William Finden, William Henry Bartlett (1842)
"THE mumbles' LIGHTHOUSE, " Amidst the storm,—when winds and waves are high, ...
THE mumbles' Lighthouse is much frequented by visitors from Swansea during ..."
3. The Boy Travellers in Great Britain and Ireland: Adventures of Two Youths in by Thomas Wallace Knox (1891)
"They passed the mumbles, two rocky islands standing side by side, and closely
resembling each other in shape. When the tide is out it is possible to walk ..."
4. The Life and Letters of the Right Honourable Friedrich Max Müller by Friedrich Max Müller (1902)
"The mumbles. Manchester. Plans for return to Germany. Maximilian Order. Oxford Girls'
High School. FROM the moment that he had written the last line of the ..."
5. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1872)
"mumbles of mumbles, near Milford Haven. It is a charming part of the country,
... The property is pretty good, but old Mr. mumbles, I remember when I was a ..."
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