"Mussy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... expect nothing from us until they had recognized our rights and our interests; he had completely routed the Senate, which had been opposing Wilson's ideals with certain ideals of its own, pitting Washington's farewell address against "breaking the heart of the world," in a mussy statement of sentimentality. ...
— The Mirrors of Washington • Anonymous
... I stay for her? If she thinks that I'm going to make myself her clerk, she's mistaken. It may be all very well for you, Mussy, but it won't do for me. I'm not dependent on her, and I don't want to ...
— The Last Chronicle of Barset • Anthony Trollope
... wonder, exhausting all the Spanish and Oriental equivalents of such expressions as "Dear me!" "How extraordinary!" "Lawks a mussy!" "You don't say so!" I finished my lecture, satisfied that my superior intellect had baffled the rude creature; then, tossingaway the fragments of the flower I had sacrificed, I restored the penknife to ...
— The Purple Land • W. H. Hudson
... full of mussy things, and the wash-bowl was dirty, and there weren't any clean towels," ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... "I've got a sort of den upstairs where I do my work." Again he led the way. "My wife's out of town, though, now, and things are a bit mussy." ...
— The Dominant Dollar • Will Lillibridge
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