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If you tread upon his ecclesiastical bunions he will give you either a dark mooner or an eye opener—we use these classical terms in a figurative sense.

From Our Churches and Chapels Their Parsons, Priests, & Congregations Being a Critical and Historical Account of Every Place of Worship in Preston by Atticus

As the night’s bound to be a mooner, we can’t git too far from ’em.

From The Lone Ranche by Reid, Mayne

From being a tireless leader of revels, he became a mooner in secret places, a melancholy sigher in the wardroom.

From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)

Nickleby r�le, my dear lad, Of mild, muddled, well-meaning mooner, Won't work—with a House gone mad!

From Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 by Various

The poet and the mooner would be no more secure from interruption in the centre of the Sahara than in Wall Street between ten and three o'clock.

From Friday, the Thirteenth by Lawson, Thomas William