Lexicographical Neighbors of Mounseers
Literary usage of Mounseers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"Are you Englishmen, that you allow a couple of beggarly mounseers to insult your
great general ... We didn't know they were mounseers. We ask your pardon, ..."
2. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"Though Rodney had but thirty-four, He forced the mounseers to give o'er, Success
to gallant Rodney. He took five French sail of the line, And one was sunk ..."
3. Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art by William Harrison Ainsworth, George Cruikshank, Hablot Knight Browne (1844)
"Are you Englishmen, that you allow a couple of beggarly mounseers to insult your
great general ... We didn't know they were mounseers. We ask your pardon, ..."
4. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"But it's my opinion as there's them at the head o' this country as are worse
enemies to us nor Bony and all the mounseers he 's got at's back ; for as for ..."
5. A Sailor's Garland by John Masefield (1908)
"Though Rodney had but thirty-four, He forced the mounseers to give o'er, Success
to gallant Rodney. He took five French sail of the line, And one was sunk ..."
6. George Eliot's Works by George Eliot (1893)
"But it's my opinion as there's them at the head o' this country as are worse
enemies to us nor Bony and all the mounseers he 's got at's back ; for as for ..."
7. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... mounseers ; l Before this place fell the brave Wolfe ; yet with the satisfaction
of first hearing that his troops were victorious. ..."
8. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... mounseers ; l Before this place fell the brave Wolfe ; yet with the satisfaction
of first hearing that his troops were victorious. ..."
9. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"... to be mounseers at any price, or put on the enemy's jackets." The manager was
compelled to procure landsmen for Napoleon's army; but the night ended in ..."
10. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"... to be mounseers at any price, or put on the enemy's jackets." The manager was
compelled to procure landsmen for Napoleon's army; but the night ended in ..."
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