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"Muck" Quotes from Famous Books

... liege, I'll never lin, But I will thorough thick and thin, Until at length I bring her in; My dearest lord, ne'er doubt it." Thorough brake, thorough briar, Thorough muck, thorough mire, Thorough water, thorough fire; And ...

— Playful Poems • Henry Morley

... things to cool down. As soon as the muck-rakers wear out their rakes, and the great American public finds some other kind of hysterics to keep it worked up to a proper temperature, I shall mosey back and resume business at the old stand. But why tell you the story of my life? Play fair now, ...

— The Slim Princess • George Ade

... trail, we struck up Bonanza, a small muddy stream in a narrow valley. Down in the creek-bed we could see ever-increasing signs of an intense mining activity. On every claim were dozens of cabins, and many high cones of greyish muck. We saw men standing on raised platforms turning windlasses. We saw buckets come up filled with the same dark grey dirt, to be dumped over the edge of the platform. Sometimes, where the dump had gradually arisen around man and windlass, ...

— The Trail of '98 - A Northland Romance • Robert W. Service

... Joe spoke a little sharply. "Our men here are as big as you and I, every one of them. My God! you'll have to pay the price of being a high muck-a-muck, ...

— The Nine-Tenths • James Oppenheim

... to try," said Hockins, with something unusually fierce in his expression. "Many a man has run a-muck before now. I've got to ...

— The Fugitives - The Tyrant Queen of Madagascar • R.M. Ballantyne

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