mopes
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“You are an uncouth man,” said Mr. Mopes the Hermit.
From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Dickens, Charles
Marlow came a Mrs. Mopes, who is engaged in creating schools of fiction by writing stories under different names and then reviewing them in her own seven magazines.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney
It was a nook in a rustic by-road, which the genius of Mopes had laid waste as completely, as if he had been born an Emperor and a Conqueror.
From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Dickens, Charles
“Mr. Mopes is dirty, it cannot be denied,” said the Landlord.
From Tom Tiddler's Ground by Dickens, Charles
Mrs. Mopes did a paragraph by a man named Henry James, translated into action, which seemed quite difficult, and then a person called Parker externalized a violin and gave the Laocoon in terms of sound.
From The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IV. (of X.) by Wilder, Marshall Pinckney