moke

Example Sentences

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A wild ass, though brought up from its birth in a stable, would make a very intractable costermonger's moke.

From Concerning Animals and Other Matters by Aitken, Edward Hamilton

But I didn't want to be nasty, only I am regular shook on this old moke, I believe, and he's as square as Mr. Falkland's dogcart horse.'

From Robbery under Arms; a story of life and adventure in the bush and in the Australian goldfields by Boldrewood, Rolf

You may cut a moke out o' pitch-pine, mate, and paint it, but can't make it walk.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, September 20, 1890 by Various

From starving moke you'll get no progress steady; The well-fed ass responds to "Gee-up, Neddy!"

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 by Burnand, F. C. (Francis Cowley), Sir

An English coster’s moke is not to be named on the same day with the Cairo donkey, on which you can have a ride for a trifling sum.

From Cities of the Dawn by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)