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Synonyms: chump; countenance; fall guy; fool; gull; kisser; mark; mug; mugful; patsy; phiz; physiognomy; smiler; soft touch; sucker; visage

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  1.  Odd Charges Odd Craft, Part 13. / Jacobs, W. W., 1863-1943
    which was nearer to the fire, fidgeted restlessly with an empty mug and blew with pathetic insistence ... , rising from his chair, crossed over to the settle and, placing his mug on the time-worn table before him  details...
  2.  The King of the Golden River / Ruskin, John, 1819-1900
    's challenge that won the story of Gluck's golden mug and the highly satisfactory handling of the Black ... , and were at last reduced to one large drinking mug, which an uncle of his had given to little Gluck  details...
  3.  Famous Stories Every Child Should Know / Various
    money enough to buy more, and were at last reduced to one large drinking-mug, which an uncle ... ; though he never drank anything out of it but milk and water. The mug was a very odd mug to look at  details...
  4.  Prize Money Sailor's Knots, Part 10. / Jacobs, W. W., 1863-1943
    the table, gazed long and hard into three or four mugs. "Sometimes a little gets left in them ... . I've said so afore, and I'll say so agin." He bowed to the donor and buried his old face in the mug. "A poacher  details...
  5.  Wessex Tales / Hardy, Thomas, 1840-1928
    or too few of such episodes, and being invited by a gesture to a pull at the mug, he readily acquiesced. His manner, which ... , and the first stranger handed his neighbour the family mug--a huge vessel of brown ware, having its upper edge  details...
  6.  Combed Out / Voigt, Frederick Augustus, 1892-1957
    were up. I finished dressing and put on my great-coat. I picked up my tin plate and mug and went ... cheer and filed past while one of the cooks poured tea into our mugs and placed a fragile wisp of bacon  details...
  7.  Courts and Criminals / Train, Arthur Cheney, 1875-1945
    of the police, was most incontinently dragged to headquarters and "mugged" without so much as "By your leave ... investigation came to the alleged conclusion that the "mugging" of Duffy was a most reprehensible thing  details...
  8.  Major Barbara / Shaw, George Bernard, 1856-1950
    jolly turn. The man takes a pull at his mug, and then gets up and moves about the yard with his hands ... up his mug]. Wots YOUR name? THE WOMAN. Rummy Mitchens, sir. PRICE [quaffing the remains of his milk to her  details...
  9.  While the Billy Boils / Lawson, Henry, 1867-1922
    --one was spielers and the other was the mugs. He reckoned that he wasn't a mug. At first I thought he was a spieler, and afterwards I thought that he was a mug. He used to say that a man had to do it these times ...  details...
  10.  Stories of Childhood / Various
    to one large drinking-mug, which an uncle of his had given to little Gluck, and which he was very fond of, and would not have parted with for the world; though he never drank anything out of it but milk and water. The mug ...  details...

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