" Mr. Noaks, junior, on the other hand, was destined to find that he was not going to carry everything before him at Ronleigh as he had done among the small fry at Horace House, The Upper Fourth voted him a "bounder," and nicknamed him "Moke."

General Carr concluded, from what they could tell him, that General Penrose was somewhere on Polladora Creek; but we could not learn anything definite from the starved "mokes," for they knew not where they were themselves.

I must be back before twelve; what's been done?" "Well, the mokes consent to go, but they won't touch the ranch.

The little moke may have been lying; I can't see that any of them do much else.

I was suddenly grabbed by the cote coller and moked into a large bildin, which I afterwards diskivered to be the Monongaheeler House.

A wild ass, though brought up from its birth in a stable, would make a very intractable costermonger's moke.

Some presents were distributed amongst them, of which the most valuable, in their estimation, were empty wine-bottles, which they called moke, this word was however used by them for water also, so that it was doubtful whether the word meant the article itself or the vessel that contained it.

Water, or a vessel to carry it in : Moke.

"That darn Sinn Feiner is the limit," said he; "lifted my best moke off me last night while I was up at the batteries.

Mind you I don't want to lose the old moke altogether, because, to tell the truth, I'm a biteen fond of him now that I know his thricks, but I figure Mr. Monk will be a severely cured character inside a week, an' return the beastie himself with tears an' apologies on vellum so long.

"After delivering two dozen of the best, the moke turned round to sniff the cold corpse, but the corpse was still warm and smiling.

My old moke flung a shoe and went dead lame at Dogtrap; an' wile I was saddlun another, Mrs Butler stuffed 'em in me pocket.

There was a fat man in a fireman's helmet and pyjamas, armed with a peashooter, riding a donkey backwardsand the moke wore two pairs of trousers!...

You may cut a moke out o' pitch-pine, mate, and paint it, but can't make it walk.