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  • noun Plural form of mould.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mould.

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Examples

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slight - est difficulty or danger in passing it.

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  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slight - est difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1914

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slight - est difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1914

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slightest difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear 1914

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slight - est difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1914

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slight - est difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1914

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slightest difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • In his bedroom at his new abode McMurdo felt it safe to take out the coining moulds, and under many a pledge of secrecy a number of brothers from the lodge were allowed to come in and see them, each carrying away in his pocket some examples of the false money, so cunningly struck that there was never the slightest difficulty or danger in passing it.

    The Valley of Fear Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

  • —No other copy, but the working drafts in H. —In line 6 the word moulds was substituted by me for combs of original, when the sonnet was published by Miles; and I leave it, having no doubt that G.M. H. would have made some such alteration.

    Notes 1918

  • It commenced with a big tureen of country soup, made of all things, but chiefly of bread, and which Hugh, with his ideas newly-shaped in English moulds, described as 'stodgey.'

    Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885

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