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Colonel Honeywood [13] are obliged to sell their commands at half-value, and leave the army, for drinking destruction to the present Ministry, and dressing up a hat on a stick, and calling it Harley; then drinking a glass with one hand, and discharging a pistol with the other at the maukin, [14] wishing it were Harley himself; and a hundred other such pretty tricks, as inflaming their soldiers, and foreign

The Journal to Stella 2003

And maukin steals across the lawn beneath the twilight gray;

The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various

'What wad the grew (grayhound) be efter but maukin (hare)?' returned

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

She cud hae wiled a maukin frae its lair wi 'her bonnie Hielan' speech.

Robert Falconer George MacDonald 1864

Weel he maun hae likit leevin 'things, puir maukin an' a '-- jist like our Robbie Burns for that.

David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864

"I'm just o 'your mind," quoth the desperado, "and I'll send ye a maukin [111] the morn, man."

Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10) 1824

Bloatsheet bounced through the kail-yard like a maukin, clamb over the bit wall, and off like mad; while Blister was feeling Magneezhy's pulse with one hand, and looking at his doctor's watch, which he had in the other.

The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

Bloatsheet bounced through the kail-yard like a maukin, clamb over the bit wall, and off like mad; while Blister was feeling Magneezhy's pulse with one hand, and looking at his doctor's watch, which he had in the other.

The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

A rare eye, too, is his at the setting of a springe for woodcocks, or tracking a maukin on the snow.

Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 John Wilson 1819

No thou pitiful flatterer of thy master's imperfections; thou maukin made up of the shreds and parings of his superfluous fopperies.

The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] William Congreve 1699