moke

Example Sentences

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Though I'm only in the pawnbroking line, and an assistant at that, I flatter mythelf I played the blooming financier up to the nines, but he was as stubborn as Balaam's talking moke.

From A Traitor's Wooing by Hill, Headon

And likewise Ned to his masthead he runs a rag of the Queen’s, With a rusty sword and a moke on board to bray like the Horse Marines.

From The Battle of the Bays by Seaman, Owen, Sir

From a Deputy-Assistant-Sub-Inspector—with the mortuary reversion of the Assistant-Sub-Inspectorship itself—to a swagman, bluey on shoulder and billy in hand, is as easy as falling off a playful moke.

From Such Is Life by Furphy, Joseph

After Jacob had got well past I went over to the horse, which was still feeding, and found it was my old moke, ready saddled-up.

From The White Hecatomb And other Stories by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Provided all one's kit had been put on a cart, the easiest way was often to let the moke go where it liked, and walk on oneself without it.

From A Kut Prisoner by Bishop, H. C. W.