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Bristol spring, where the company is assembled before dinner; so good natured, so free, so easy; and there we drink the water so clear, so pure, so mild, so charmingly maukish.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

May wit and humour wing their flight to another region, and the mighty void be supplied by maukish sentiment, horse-collar grins, wood-demons, and other show-cattle of the Smithfield muses!

The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810 Samuel James Arnold 1813

They could not characterize what they could not hear; and the maukish adulation curdled even upon my digestive stomach.

The Adventures of Hugh Trevor Thomas Holcroft 1777

But ill treatment itself, from her, is superior to all the maukish kindness which folly and caprice endeavour to lavish.

Anna St. Ives Thomas Holcroft 1777

_ Now the furies take Æneas, for letting them sleep upon their quarrel; who knows but rest may cool their brains, and make them rise maukish to mischief upon consideration?

The works of John Dryden, $c now first collected in eighteen volumes. $p Volume 06 John Dryden 1665

Madam, I must smoak and drink in a Morning, or I am maukish all day.

The Works of Aphra Behn Volume IV. Aphra Behn 1664