Growing up in Hope, Foster was the boy across the backyard fence, playing a pocketknife game called mumbletypeg with his pal. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery Of The White House Suicide] Reference
Goblin and Silent were playing no-hands mumbletypeg. From Wordnik.com. [Shadows Linger]
They'd have to conduct long interviews with hi close friends, including Clinton and McLarty, two men at the center of power who were once innocent boys playing mumbletypeg. From Wordnik.com. [The Mystery Of The White House Suicide] Reference
I'm going outside to whittle and then play mumbletypeg. From Wordnik.com. [MetaFilter Projects] Reference
… and who can forget that day he interviewed Emmitt Smith over a game of mumbletypeg. From Wordnik.com. [WHO WANTS TO WIN PAUL RUDD?] Reference
They'd go all "Nixon In The Rose Garden" on us and give us a bunch of incoherent mumbletypeg about quality and service and how none of this was really their fault so please don't sue. From Wordnik.com. [CarBuyersNoteBook] Reference
A couple of steamer chairs that were not in use, and they sat down near together, and dad took hold of her hand to see if she was nervous, and he told me I could go any play mumbletypeg in the cabin, and I went in the cabin and looked out of the window at dad and the widow. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
Emperor talking English, but when the ruler of Germany turned to me and said, "And so this is the champion little devil of America," and patted me on the head, dad felt that he had struck a friend of the family, and he sat down with the Emperor and talked for half an hour, while the young Princes gathered around me, and we sat down on the floor and the boys got out their knives, and we played mumbletypeg on the carpet, just as though we were at home, and all the boys talked English, and we had. From Wordnik.com. [Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904] Reference
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