murphy
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A studio apartment with a shared murphy bed became their home.
From Washington Times ● Oct. 15, 2015
A piece of sea-weed has often, heretofore, been used as a barometer; but it is only of late that this purpose has been answered by a murphy.
From The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue by John Leech
Mike reached over and carefully selected a big murphy, which he held with the thumb of his left hand and fingers circling about it.
From The Launch Boys' Adventures in Northern Waters by Burton Donnel Hughes
As far as I remimber, I began with murphies, when I was two foot high, in my father’s cabin in ould Ireland.
From Martin Rattler by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
"Here's the murphies," cried O'Connor, staggering over the slippery weed with a large smoking tin dish.
From The Lighthouse by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Jack Robinson earnestly advised the faithless man to go home, and help his grandmother, thenceforth, to plant murphies; after which he embarked in his canoe alone, and paddled away into the dreary north.
From Fort Desolation Red Indians and Fur Traders of Rupert's Land by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
He was fast in the arms uv murphies, or maniac, speaking by the card, till the bhoy Samba woke him up.
From Samba A Story of the Rubber Slaves of the Congo by Herbert Strang
With murphies for to ate, An' as many pigs and childer As the fingers on me fate.'
From Verse and Worse by Harry Graham
