"Muggins" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been here all day,' was scrawled on it, 'and the governor is precious angry. I doubt Jack has got into some trouble or other.—Your obedient servant, Joe Muggins.' ...
— Uncle Max • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... a minute," said she, "you fat old muggins! Look at him, Shandon. He knows I'm strange. Yes, 'course you do! He wants to go back to you, Shandy. Well, what do you know about that? Say, dearie," continued Mrs. Larabee, in a lower tone, "you've got a terrible handsome boy, and what's more, ...
— Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby and Other Stories • Kathleen Norris
... all," returned Little, unrebuked. "Think I'm an easy mark, hey? Muggins from Muggsville? Come again, Barry. Beg pardon, Cap'n Barry, I should say. Haul th' bowline! Jack up th' fo'c'sle yard! See, I'm also a tarry ...
— Gold Out of Celebes • Aylward Edward Dingle
... well illustrated by the remarks of Muggins. Muggins on his return from the pub one Saturday ...
— More Toasts • Marion Dix Mosher
... place. His attentions to Miss Flack at a race ball were such that her father said De Mogyns must either die on the field of honour, or become his son-in-law. He preferred marriage. His name was Muggins then, and his father—a flourishing banker, army-contractor, smuggler, and general jobber—almost disinherited him on account of ...
— The Book of Snobs • William Makepeace Thackeray
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