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Examples
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Our Peregrine requires a naked mauley (clenches Aunt Julia's white hand into a fist) -- something like this, only bigger and harder -- applied to his torso --
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Me wild, a rat hole in me lung, but in me mauley, too,
'Hello, Soldier!' Khaki Verse Edward Dyson 1898
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"Great Scott; she gives me the mauley-grubs! Ugh!" and his companion shivered.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Various 1887
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"Arrah, be after putting your dirty fingers in your pocket, and don't spoil the King's picture by touching it -- devil burn me, but I'll _mill your mug to muffin dust_ {6} before I'll give up that beautiful looking bit; so tip us your mauley, {7} and no more blarney."
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'Qui sicca solus secum spatiatur arena,' and holding in his dexter mauley a red herring, whilst a white table-cloth (the centre of his motions) would proclaim some mysterious rite, must to the young ladies have seemed a merman suddenly come up from the sea, without sound of conch; whilst to him the large deputation from female Megara furnished an extra theatre for the inspection of
Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 Thomas De Quincey 1822
chained_bear commented on the word mauley
"'...but for a serious boxing-match, for a genuine prize-fight, it is always the bare mauleys, oh dear me, yes.'"
--P. O'Brian, The Yellow Admiral, 54
March 19, 2008