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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

They are brought into a cavern, the entrance to which Roger is ordered to mure up.

From The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas by Charles Annesley

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

"I said I wanted you just to mention that it was not true I was going to be married to him." she mur- mured, with a slight decline in her assurance.

From Far from the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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

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

And now, Humphrey, Chaloner and Grenville are not a little tired of being mured up in the cottage, and I am as anxious as they are to be off.

From The Children of the New Forest by Frederick Marryat




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