‘From a mutchkin to a gallon, I ken your honour’s taste. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Steenie cried for a mutchkin of brandy, for he had had no refreshment the haill day. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
'A mutchkin o 'usquebaugh for ilka man,' shouted a burly flesher, 'tis mair heartenin'. From Wordnik.com. [Border Ghost Stories] Reference
Roy Macdonald complied with the summons, taking with him a half mutchkin stoup full of whiskey. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
Hieland sowens by Mr. Duncan MacDonought, the last minister, who began the morning duly, Sunday and Saturday, with a mutchkin of usquebaugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
Inn, and to bestow a mutchkin, as he would jocosely say, to obtain the freedom of the house, but, in reality, to assure himself of my company during the evening. —. From Wordnik.com. [Old Mortality] Reference
'From a mutchkin to a gallon, I ken your honour's taste, Mr. Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Jekyl of a mutchkin of Glenlivat, that both would fall by the first fire. From Wordnik.com. [St. Ronan's Well] Reference
And I'se gie ye a mutchkin mysell, man, if I can settle weel wi 'Christy Wilson.' '. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
"Aggie, fill me a mutchkin when you're at it," said Gourlay to the pretty barmaid with the curly hair. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
Godsake, woman, let me away; there's saxpence t 'ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o' clavering about thae auld-warld stories. '. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Godsake, woman, let me away; theres saxpence tye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o clavering about thae auld warld stories. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter XXII] Reference
Cursecowl insisted that our meeting should not be a dry one; nor would he hear a single word on me and James Batter not accepting his treat of a mutchkin of Kilbagie. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference
He has pouched my fee, and drucken a mutchkin of brandy, and now he's ower the march, and left my cause, half won half lost -- as dead a heat as e'er was run ower the back-sands. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
His cocked hat was set knowingly upon one side of his head, and while he whistled the 'Bob of Dumblain,' under the influence of half a mutchkin of brandy, he seemed to trot merrily forward, with. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 2] Reference
I had no great scruple to do this, as I thought Benjie would likely sleep for an hour, being wearied with the joggling of the cart, and having supped a mutchkin bowlful of Luckie Barm's broo and bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference
I had no great scruple to do this, as I thought Benjie would likely sleep for an hour, being wearied with the joogling of the cart, and having supped a mutchkin bowlful of Luckie Barm's broo and bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself] Reference
Among her other ways of doing, grannie kept a cow, and sold the milk round about to the neighbours in a pitcher, whiles carried by my father, and whiles by my aunties, at the ransom of a halfpenny the mutchkin. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith] Reference
"Deevil a fears, if ye're worth the price o 'half a mutchkin. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847] Reference
And I’se gie ye a mutchkin mysell, man, if I can settle weel wi’ Christy. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
A pennyworth of ground cinnamon -- half a mutchkin of best cony brandy, by way of change -- and a Musselburgh ankerstoke, to slice down for tea-drinkings and posset cups. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself] Reference
And I'se gie ye a mutchkin mysell, man, if I can settle weel wi 'Christy Wilson. ". From Wordnik.com. [The Black Dwarf] Reference
Godsake, woman, let me away; there’s saxpence t’ ye to buy half a mutchkin, instead o’ clavering about thae auld-warld stories.’. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering] Reference
Come, bring the tither mutchkin in. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Just ae half mutchkin does me prime. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years] Reference
Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering — Complete] Reference
Her mutchkin stoup as toom's a whissle. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham] Reference
Just ae half-mutchkin does me prime, . From Wordnik.com. [Epistle to John Goldie, in Kilmarnock] Reference
Her mutchkin stoup as tooms a whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter IX] Reference
Her mutchkin stowp as tooms a whissle. From Wordnik.com. [The Authors Earnest Cry and Prayer] Reference
I mean hauf a mutchkin the best o 'the toon. From Wordnik.com. [A Wee Drap o' Whisky] Reference
He uncorked his mutchkin and drank it like water. From Wordnik.com. [The House with the Green Shutters] Reference
A mutchkin of usquebaugh. From Wordnik.com. [The Heart of Mid-Lothian] Reference
"Half a mutchkin on Luckie. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
“Half a mutchkin on Luckie. From Wordnik.com. [The Surgeon's Daughter] Reference
Her mutchkin stoup as toom’s a whistle. From Wordnik.com. [Guy Mannering] Reference
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