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mure

[myoor] / mjʊər /




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From Time Magazine Archive

And so with drawing the hole people, he came to a dyck in a mure edge, upoun the sowth-west syd of Mauchlyne, upoun the which he ascended.

From The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6) by David Laing

It is no mure wonderful that I should live again than that I do live.

From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Discussions by Robert Green Ingersoll

Walter and Virginia came up to the station, and parted with their sister with fondness that was much mure refreshing, Walter reiterating that his was the only plan.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 2 by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Next we drove to San Paolo fuori le mure, of the burning of which Thorwaldsen's Museum possesses a painting by Leopold Robert, but which at that time had been entirely re-built in the antique style.

From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes

"I wouldn't call it voluntary," he mur mured.

From Time Magazine Archive

We had in our hospital men from the invaded countries without news of wives and families mured up behind that iron veil.

From Another Sheaf by John Galsworthy

But above all, that beloved disciple, who being so intimate with Jesus Christ,—we may lawfully conceive he was mured to that affectionate frame by his converse with Christ,—has been most mindful of Christ's testamentary injunctions.

From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning

First, then, said Gargantua, you must not build a wall about your convent, for all other abbeys are strongly walled and mured about.

From Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 by Peter Anthony Motteux

“What a dislike the men must have to the press,” said Cross to me, “when they submit to be mured up here in prison.”

From Percival Keene by Frederick Marryat




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