Lexicographical Neighbors of Muxes
Literary usage of Muxes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island: With by Silas Wood (1828)
"... muxes. * The first purchase of Huntington in 1653, comprized nearly six miles
square ; the consideration paid to the Indians, consisted of six coats, ..."
2. The Natural, Statistical, and Civil History of the State of New-York by James Macauley (1829)
"... six fathom wampum, thirty muxes, and thirty needles. The first purchase of
East Hamptom embraced about thirty thousand seven hundred and twenty acres, ..."
3. Walt Whitman: His Life and Work by Bliss Perry (1906)
"... land they paid the native Indians " 6 coats, 6 kettles, 6 hatchets, 6 howes,
6 shirts, 10 knives, 6 fathom of wampum, 30 muxes [eel-spears], 30 lies. ..."
4. A System of Mineralogy: Descriptive Mineralogy, Comprising the Most Recent by James Dwight Dana, George Jarvis Brush (1875)
"With the muxes gives reactions for iron, and sometimes for manganese. Imperfectly
decomposed by sulphuric acid. Obs.—Usually found in mica schist, ..."
5. Walt Whitman by Bliss Perry (1906)
"... 6 shirts, 10 knives, 6 fathom of wampum, 30 muxes [eel-spears], 30 needles."
Three years later the township was increased by the Eastern Purchase, ..."
6. A History of Greek Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of by Frank Byron Jevons (1892)
"... that would have liad most interest for us, if it had been preserved, is the
muxes, from which comes a celebrated tributi ..."
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