Do we say mussed or must

mussed 23 occurrences

I didn't wonder at his language nor at his looks, both of which were somewhat mussed up.

She serves breakfast, gives the children an extra polish in honor of the day, puts on the clean frocks and suits with an admonition "not to get all mussed up" before the start.

Then we chugged around into Coney for gas and on the way back we got mussed up with the tide and were carried out to seabanged around for three days, bailing and trying to fry fish on the muffler.

They looked rather mussed up, and all of the Rovers wondered if Flockley had opened and read them.

Figueroa's men, though they had to cover three times the distance, struck the main body of the rebels first and got badly mussed up in the battle that followed.

"Yes," Old Heck added quickly, "that was the bargain on account ofofgetting it mussed up and everything and making too much work for Sing Pete to clean it up!" Ophelia and Carolyn June looked curiously at each other as if they suspected some secret that had to do with their presence at the Quarter Circle KT.

You've mussed me all up! AGRAFÉNA KONDRÁTYEVNA.

"Yesterday afternoon shrapnel fire rather mussed us up, but to-day nothing has happened.

He told the rest of the Lakerimmers that he would carry a cane anyway, and carry it anywhere he pleased, and that the next man who attempted to take it from him would be likely to get "mussed up.

Aunt Jane worked a whole day picking threads off the carpet, and smoothing down the linen covers because they'd got so mussed up.

Carry it carefully so it won't get mussed before the company see it, and come not back late for milking.

She mussed over some unanswered notes in her desk but could not summon up enough concentration of mind to answer them.

" Dr. Withers, bringing with him an intolerable smell of disinfectants and chloroform, hurried in, with his hair mussed from the haste with which he had removed his operating-garments.

I've got to have a room mussed up, to feel at home in it.

His curls, at the last moment, had been mussed by a raging hand.

"If they start from the Square they'll be mussed up before they get here.

He got in a jam of cars, and of course the windshields were all mussed up with rain, and the chauffeurs couldn't see anything aheadand

My mother's ideas differed somewhat from mine, most of all when I mussed up the house with my experiments.

" In the pale gold light that flooded through the windows of the sixty-bed dormitory, the women turned down the mussed toweling sheets from the bolsters across the reddish gray spreads.

"You've mussed me all up.

And you set the other at a twelve-hour stunt of making all the beds you've mussed, and washing all the dishes you've used, and cleaning all the dust you've kicked up, and you boss the whole while the baby yells with colic over your armyou just try this with two of your men and see how long it is before there's rough-house on the Wabash.

I made her wrap up warmly, and we crawled out, covered with chaff, rumpled, mussed up, but safe and happy; and found the sun shining over a landscape of sparkling frost, with sun-dogs in the sky and spiracles of frost in the air, and a light breeze still blowing from the northwest, so bitingly cold that a finger or cheek was nipped by it in a moment's exposure.

Or, did the girl" "Aw, the darned dawg mussed up the floor, dying in here," Billy apologized weakly.

must 124844 occurrences

The Bharata here intended must not be confounded with the young prince.

As if impelled by some presentiment which he himself could not explain, the boy hurried deeper into the forest along the narrow path which Minnetaki must have taken.

From what Mukoki tells me, and from what you and I already know, Woonga's people must be in the forests beyond the lake.

I must try it again some day soon.

It was not alone because Jules was hurt that she wanted to cry, but because they must have the Noël fête without him.

Must I wait three years before I sit here?"

You know you mustn't call the attacks 'fits.'

If not, you must be told that it consists of layers and layers of thin slices of bread all pressed down together, with ground nuts or dressed lettuce in between.

I must be supine, acquiescent, smiling, non-essential.

"You mustn't forget that I'm doing it for money," she said.

I feel as if it must beas if I couldn't get along without you to help me enjoy things.

"You must take 'no' for your answer, dear man.

"Really, you mustn't.

" He had pushed her back into that lonely place where the old often must stand, and she shivered a little as if a cold wind blew over her.

"I must treat her as if she had a violent disease and take care of her.

When people are delirious they must be protected against themselves.

I must have the firmness that a mother would have toward her.

My journey must be spent in preparation for my great change.

It must have been some time later that something spoke within her, recalling her.

However, truth must he told, and so it shall be with all the necessary regularity and precision.

But since we have been hereI do not wish to grieve you more, my dear EmmelineI must confess your conduct has been productive to me of the most painful self-reproach.

I trust time will restore that calm tranquillity which he has enjoyed the last year, but I must own I fear it.

" "And has it indeed gone so far that both you and my father have consented, and I must disobey and displease my parents, or be miserable for life?" "My child," said Mrs. Hamilton, so solemnly, that Emmeline involuntarily checked her tears, "my child, you shall never marry the husband we have chosen for you, unless you can love and be happy with him: sacredly and irrevocably I promise this.

" "Do you know any whom you think will?" "What a question," she said, smiling, "to tempt me to betray my cousin's secrets, if she had any, but candidly I must admit that as yet I know none.

A wife to be truly happy and virtuous, must entirely forget self; a truth which the partner of a country clergyman should ever remember, as his family is larger, more constant in their calls upon her attention and sympathy, and sometimes her exertions are less productive of satisfaction and pleasure, than those of many other stations in life.

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