Other spots again seem to abide their destiny, suggestive and impenetrable, “miching mallecho.” ❋ Unknown (2005)
MAGINN for suggesting that _miching mallecho_, in _Hamlet_, Act III. ❋ Various (N/A)
In instances easy to be cited, (but that there were miching malecho in the deed,) insult has been added to injury, and the anguish depicted in the face of the mortified man of letters been assuaged by friendly advice to ❋ Various (N/A)
One answer always served JOHN when questioned by his master -- “Where have you been miching now, you young rascal?” ❋ Unknown (N/A)
QUOTATION: This is miching mallecho; it means mischief. ❋ Unknown (1919)
I sometimes think that many of the gentle and pure-souled people who read this amiable writer go on their way through his pages without discerning this quiver, this ripple, this vibration, of "miching mallecho." ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
They over emphasize the "magnanimity" of his art, or they over emphasize its "miching-mallecho." ❋ John Cowper Powys (1917)
Marry, this is miching mallecho; it means mischief. ❋ Unknown (1914)
With Leo Dillon and a boy named Mahony I planned a day's miching. ❋ James Joyce (1911)
Marry, this is miching mallecho; 16 that means mischief. ❋ Unknown (1909)
The whole thing is a mystery, of which I can only say with Hamlet -- "miching mallecho; it means mischief." ❋ Ian Hamilton (1900)
_Staffy: _ No person at all would stretch out his hand to a lad would be rambling and walking the world, and it in its darkness and sleep, and be drowsing and miching from labour through the hours the sun has command of. ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)
I give you my word he set myself dancing reels one time in the street, and I making an attack on him for keeping the little lads miching from school. ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)
I give you my oath I would not go miching from death or be in terror of the sharpness of his bones, and he coming as at the Flood to sweep the living world along with me, and leave no man on earth having penmanship to handle my deeds, or to put his own skin on my story! ❋ Lady Gregory (1892)
Verily this was "miching mallecho," as Hamlet says. ❋ Henry Van Dyke (1892)
Mistress Wynter, at that fat soggy thing, that lag-last, so shiftless and useless about the house, lazing from rath to latte, and then to complete their exasperation, miching off into the woods to shirk her work so that the whole company had to turn out with a mort of trouble to hunt for the leg-trape. ❋ Alice Morse Earle (1881)
Then with stealthily set crutch, putting it down as the wild beast sets down his miching paw, out sprang Truffey and after the master. ❋ George MacDonald (1864)
It is dying out all the world over in women, under the influence of cleverness and "style;" it is perishing in poetry and art before criticism; it is wearing away from manliness, through priggishness; it is being crushed out of true gentleness of heart and nobility of soul by the pessimist puppyism of miching Mallockos. ❋ Charles Godfrey Leland (1863)
I have since looked at MR. COLLIER'S note to which he refers, and find that he interprets _miching_ by _stealing_, which will not suit the context; and abundant examples may be adduced that to _mich_ was to _skulk_, to _lurk_, as MR. SINGER has very properly explained it. ❋ Various (1852)
There is mischief, you see, reader, singing in the air -- 'miching malhecho' -- and it is our business to watch it. ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)
