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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
moble . - adjective with the
head wrapped up or muffled
Etymologies
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Examples
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She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen, even though you prove that a bed in those days was as rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven parishes.
Ulysses 2003
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As this scene is mobled in the aforesaid mists of antiquity, I cannot vouch for the details.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 1914
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Young painters found her mobled in the fogs, and bank-clerks, versed in the writings of Mr. Hamerton, were heard to declare, as they sped home from the City, that the Underground Railway was beautiful from London Bridge to Westminster, but not from Sloane Square to Notting Hill Gate.
The Works of Max Beerbohm Max Beerbohm 1914
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-- She lies laid out in stark stiffness in that secondbest bed, the mobled queen, even though you prove that a bed in those days was as rare as a motorcar is now and that its carvings were the wonder of seven parishes.
Ulysses James Joyce 1911
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood Drag to Playlist
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood Drag to Playlist
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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And then, perhaps the greatest of all your errors is this: instead of arranging your matter first, and then elaborating the diction, you find some out-of-the-way word, or are captivated by one of your own invention, and try to build up your meaning round it; if you cannot get it in somehow or other, though it may have nothing to do with the matter, you are inconsolable; do you remember the _mobled queen_ you let off the other day?
Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 of Samosata Lucian 1894
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- therefore, when you say I 'pin' you down, you use an expression which is, like the 'mobled queen' in Hamlet, good.
God's Good Man Marie Corelli 1889
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