Example Sentences

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My vather he gave me a hog, My mouther she gave me a zow; I have a God-vather dwels thereby, And he on me bestowed a plow.

From Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

But the power of the mummer lies in the illusion he creates; if he does not create illusion, as Craig did not for Margaret, he becomes mere pantomimist and mouther.

From The Fashionable Adventures of Joshua Craig; a Novel by Phillips, David Graham

There's a "mouther" for you! as George Saintsbury would say.

From Unicorns by Huneker, James

Yet, happy for us when, their cause defined, They walk no longer with a stumbler blind, And quicken in the virtue of their cause, To think me a poor mouther of old saws!

From Poems — Volume 3 by Meredith, George