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    mug


    mugged


    mugging


    mugs


    1. ‘What else did you learn, Mum?’ he asked, grasping his mug in both hands and looking intently at the brown liquid swirling around inside it


    2. I watch as he reaches for two mugs from the mug tree and spoons coffee into them


    3. ’ Stephen said, looking at me over the top of his mug


    4. ’ Stephen admitted, tracing the top of his mug with one finger


    5. ’ He said, pushing the empty mug away from him


    6. That makes her laugh self-consciously, her gaze transferred to the mug in her hand


    7. ’ he said bitterly as Liz hands him a mug of coffee


    8. Ava set down her mug and looked her in the eye, "Our greatest achievement is that we can interface with them


    9. You’re a real trooper!’ she said handing me a mug


    10. My eyes on my mug, I listen as she goes on and on about what a pest he has been in the village since he was a teenager, getting girls into trouble left, right and centre

    11. It had to be morning because the tray on the floor in the doorway of my cell carried a plate of bread and jam and a mug of hot, milky tea


    12. ’ She said, putting my mug in front of me


    13. I brushed my teeth with a flattened toothbrush that sat in a mug on an old sink


    14. The mug had no handle


    15. I usually left my teaspoon standing in the mug, but this morning I secreted it under the blanket on my camp bed


    16. Roll-ups and clichés over stolen coffee mug moments


    17. She took the mug of soup and held it close to his mouth, like a mother does with a small child


    18. ’ I said, handing her the mug


    19. ’ She said, going bright red and casting her eyes down to the mug she is holding in her lap


    20. I put the mug down on the stand and try to pull myself together

    21. That done, she hands me the mug again and sits watching as I sip at the still-warm liquid


    22. ‘Do I have to?’ I complained, taking the mug from her reluctantly


    23. Feeling absolutely wonderful, I turn my head to see Joris standing there with a plate in one hand and a mug of something in the other


    24. and seeping scald of a mug of boiling tea


    25. next to a mug that still balances on the edge


    26. ’ Berndt said, coming into the room carrying a bowl of steaming porridge and a mug of coffee


    27. ‘I don’t think we’ve ever talked about that, have we?’ he mused, elbows on the table, nursing his mug


    28. The big mug of Tethar's keg juice half empty on the table was probably as much a cause of that as the jokes


    29. By nine o’clock Cyberia had nearly sold out her stock and was looking forward to the little luxury that might be afforded by way of a bacon butty and a polystyrene mug of tea, when her husband arrived pushing an old pram full of soiled tee-shirts and builders’ low slung jeans


    30. There is a warm mug of Tesh in each room, and I ordered the fires lit

    31. Lord Tarak took a long drink from his mug and wiped his mouth with the back of his hand


    32. I’m still standing stunned when Alastair comes up behind me and takes my empty mug from my hand


    33. ’ He said, handing me my mug


    34. I explain how it came about and hand him his mug


    35. Jane greeted me with a much appreciated cup of coffee – Peter joined us when he got back from his visit to the Hospice – he’d flopped on a chair accepting gratefully the mug Jane handed him


    36. ’ He had said, smiling at me over his mug


    37. I go to refill his mug with coffee and plant a kiss on his head as I pass


    38. ’ He said, taking the mug I hand him and avoiding my eyes


    39. A half hour later they returned to the warmth of the Inn and a warm mug of Tesh


    40. of a bacon butty and a polystyrene mug of tea, when her husband

    41. They sat and enjoyed a mug of Tesh together


    42. While my hands busy themselves preparing a mug of coffee, I recap in my head what I’ve got for this section before Clarissa’s death … Bert’s recollections of Bunty and the repairs to the house; the Gosling man’s proposal … he’s always going to be the Gosling man to me! … the diaries and files


    43. wrapped tightly around a steaming mug of cocoa


    44. When Tam returned he handed him a mug of coffee


    45. ’ I said, handing him his mug


    46. ‘Any chance of another cuppa?’ Owen asked holding out his mug


    47. There is a toothbrush in a chipped mug on a ledge above the sink


    48. I pour the boiling water into the mug, watching the coffee granules swirl into a light brown colour as I add the milk


    49. As I lift the mug to carry it into the lounge, a thought hits me … if I feel like this when I am moving on to something exciting, how on earth did Bunty feel, tidying up the ends of her life


    50. ' he said coolly, as I put the mug down on the desk, his eyes are veiled and impersonal














































    1. "I was going to but when I came out of the shop with the money I was mugged


    2. Casino city is about being mugged,


    3. He would have us believe that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality


    4. Edmund Burke, the father of modern conservatism, never had to be mugged by reality, for from his earliest age, he knew what reality is


    5. Lance learned he mugged the Corleone's, he moved off the map


    6. He mugged a bus boys duds off a rack


    7. I only got mugged once, in front of Hyde Park H


    8. This was the only time that he had purposefully left it home to avoid being mugged … The wallet, with all his credit cards and identification, and less than one hundred U


    9. Your chances of being mugged in London are


    10. They overturned cars, set stores afire, mugged and beat any who crossed their path

    11. It’s probably a coincidence, but a few hours later I was mugged


    12. How could she do that to him? He checked his watch, it was about one in the morning, so he just kept walking and eventually found himself in a busier area of Southside without getting mugged


    13. Because you were ill for so long after you were mugged, your side of the story has never been told


    14. “…at the Saxon pub, where you were mugged


    15. How is he?” The barman could tell by the blank expression on Gary’s face that he didn’t know what he was talking about, “Don’t you know? He was mugged last night after he left here


    16. wear an attractive garment so that the police, if he were to be mugged, would not think


    17. It’s possible that he was just mugged and killed by some thief who knows nothing about LOTTO


    18. He then proceeded to that location and mugged the delivery agent, thus avoiding paying for them


    19. Unfortunately, he died after being mugged


    20. The second chicken lay as if mugged in the oily street-gutter

    21. I was sort of mugged on Earth, and my Link was stolen


    22. I mean, I'm from New York and I've been mugged a couple of times--who hasn't? But I've never had someone hate me because of my work


    23. their beards, cut their hair, mugged a couple of business men for their sharp suits


    24. Christmas and didn't want to give it up if I got mugged on the streets


    25. Or if she hadn’t been mugged or raped or whatever else people did with respectable middle-aged women whom they discovered sitting cold and alone in their Audis long after all honest people had gone to sleep


    26. He was mugged last night


    27. You’ve been mugged


    28. cared about was greed and wouldn’t care if I was stabbed or mugged


    29. He had been mugged and beaten twice on his way


    30. “A couple of guys mugged him last week, and he spent several days under

    31. Just this week a blind 85 year-old was mugged and punched to death by two teenage black males


    32. you at the hospital, you can tell them you were mugged


    33. He had the recording and played it for me, “I’m at the Northwest High parking lot, and it appears that a man is being mugged


    34. I have been mugged twice while wearing this watch, and neither time did they ever ask for my watch


    35. He told her about that day by the Minster when his Gran was mugged


    36. educated guy, I've mugged up all these years for money


    37. I was still scared by what had happened when I had been mugged but I didn’t want to ruin their night out so I pretended I was fine and took a taxi home


    38. “I got mugged on the way over here?”


    39. placing my trip cash and my old credit cards in my socks in case I got mugged on the bus, but that


    40. Also, I got mugged the second day, which is why I’m wearing the same sweater in almost every picture on aromeofonesown

    41. The very cute Hoshi hugged herself and mugged for the camera


    1. The policeman who’d been here when she arrived had implied that it was more attempted murder than a mugging … seemed to think that she’d been deliberately left on the railway line


    2. prison, what with their life style of mugging, robbing, stealing,


    3. This wasn’t a routine mugging by any means---it was attempted murder


    4. But the obese fellow thought that I was attempting a mugging


    5. We had long since tired of marvelling at the lack of a mugging we had received, and as for following the olde bloody worlde historic, bastard town map, frankly Mark remarked, he wouldn’t wipe his arse on it (although he had come pretty close to it, finding no public toilets in over two and a half hours)


    6. This is why I say that the 401(k) is the gun used in the mugging of America


    7. York’s biggest daily newspapers waiting for a mugging to happen and here


    8. Memorizing or mugging is not a good alternative to having a proper grasp of the subject


    9. news I said nothing about the mugging


    10. “During the mugging as you put it,” he said, “you were stabbed with a knife or a thin sharp instrument

    11. Now, only minor misdemeanours such as street mugging, burglary, rape and murder are untouched by the new broom that sweeps through the British Police force and we can all feel a lot safer in our beds that Pc Plod is out there nicking all the evil motorists before they slaughter us in our own homes


    12. "What the hell are you doing? Are you eavesdropping on their conversation?" I turned around and saw Kelsey, Tiffany's best friend standing there mean mugging me


    13. Cole seemed happy to see me because as soon as I came in he gave me a wide smile but I responded by mean mugging him


    14. His father had hanged himself when Smith was sixteen, his mother had died in a car crash and his Gran had developed pneumonia after breaking her hip in a mugging


    15. confirming my identity, Oleg was making it clear to me that this wasn't a random mugging, that


    16. And if there were to be answers--not about who had shot her, for that was a mugging gone wrong, I believed, but about what losing her might mean--then this other life, this second self, seemed to hold them


    17. He had expected a shooting or a mugging, but the man in question had been struck by lightning


    18. The Hanging Man suggests a mugging


    19. "Imagine a mugging in progress," said Floyd Norris in his September 8, 1989, column in the New York Times


    1. The desk was filled to overflowing with paper, pens, clipboards, used coffee mugs, and a large, old computer


    2. ’ I replied, pouring the water into the mugs and dunking the teabags


    3. I watch as he reaches for two mugs from the mug tree and spoons coffee into them


    4. Feeling about ten years old, I spoon coffee into the mugs


    5. for two mugs, a scraping of milk was added so that it could float in lumps on the


    6. ’ I replied, pouring the boiling water into the mugs


    7. ’ Iain said reappearing with a couple of mugs of tea


    8. where mugs of tea steam


    9. “In that case 2 mugs of ale please, and whatever Cosmicblasto


    10. Poopsie was busy in the Tavern; she was putting away the mugs

    11. She came towards Lord Tarak smiling, with a tray of large mugs


    12. It’s cosy sitting at the kitchen table with our mugs of tea


    13. the four washed mugs on the draining board, nearly fainting with


    14. Having refreshed our mugs with coffee, we turn to the larger question of the cottage and the move to Italy


    15. Two mugs of warm Tesh were placed on a table by the fire, along with a basket of bread and cheese


    16. After he’s gone, I take the mugs into the kitchen and absentmindedly wash them up as I muse over his kindness


    17. I told him as we carry our mugs into the sitting room


    18. I help Chris carry the mugs over to the sink where she starts to wash up


    19. ’ I replied, wiping up the mugs, ‘But I was an only child


    20. We are still standing there, murmuring to each other when Bill kicks the door open and comes into the room carrying a tray of mugs

    21. He spoons instant coffee into two chipped brown mugs and waits for the kettle to boil


    22. The kegman was here for the mugs, “You mean ‘ol Northie’?” he asked


    23. ‘We’ve been had for mugs


    24. Much later, Bram’s mother bustled in with a tray of mugs of hot


    25. Without saying another word, he picked up one of the mugs and carried it out of the room


    26. time chatting to the mechanics over mugs of tea


    27. ’ Chrissie explained as she looks through the cupboards for the mugs


    28. They sit at the table comfortably, elbows resting on the table top, hands nursing mugs


    29. ’ She said, her eyes on his back as he busies himself with mugs and spoons


    30. had made mugs of cocoa for the company, but even this had done

    31. Maggie shrugs her shoulders and fills two mugs with boiling water, dropping a tea bag in each mug in turn


    32. She appears in the kitchen doorway, carrying two mugs of tea and Jock visibly sags as the adrenalin coursing through his veins loses the fight with the sheer bloody fatigue that he feels in his bones


    33. “You haven’t changed a bit,” he said to Kemberra, trying to smile, as he sat and set down the mugs


    34. Desperate to regain favour, he held out one of the mugs


    35. When the whole family had seated themselves around the table and Granny had poured out mugs of raspberry vinegar, Grandpa clapped his hands for silence


    36. Mugs were scooped in, and, with the stars twinkling brightly above the singing began


    37. The women of the clan were laying a group of cooking fires and setting up trestle tables with mugs and plates and various sized bottles


    38. Mugs were filled with clear cold water that tasted faintly of the canvas it was stored in


    39. They strapped Nimblefax onto the cart whilst he and Rosecare collected the mugs and washed them in Granny’s sink


    40. Lemoss picked up the tomato pan and started to pour into one of the mugs, It took a drop then moved out the way

    41. Then she busied herself with mugs and tea and sugar


    42. last of their mugs Roger repeated his question


    43. Dirty dishes and mugs


    44. The lads were full of questions asking us what had happened but we told them that we were tired out and needed some rest this did not stop them however from bringing us mugs of tea and giving us fags with the hope we could be persuaded to tell them the story


    45. Elijah handed the smokes out and Johnny poured the tea into our mugs saying


    46. ” He looked us over and I am sure he must have seen the horror registered on our mugs as we all remembered the last assault and the shambles it turned into


    47. I and the rest of the walking wounded filed down the gangplank and there at the bottom were a group of FANNY’S running a canteen and handing us mugs of tea as we filed past


    48. It was warm when I sat down in the kitchen something I was extremely glad of I pulled my chair up to the table and Mabel got the mugs out I noticed that the kettle was already steaming away on the hearth


    49. Martha came back in carrying mugs of tea on a beer tray and handed them to us she then put milk and sugar on the table and told us to help ourselves


    50. Rosemary passed around the coffee mugs and when they had all completed the ceremony of milking and sugaring she had to pull out a chair on the opposite side of the table from Frank to sit












































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    Synonyms for "mug"

    mug countenance kisser phiz physiognomy smiler visage chump fall guy fool gull mark patsy soft touch sucker mugful face grimace cup vessel horn chalice attack assault rob victimise victimize molest assail

    "mug" definitions

    the quantity that can be held in a mug


    a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of


    the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British)


    with handle and usually cylindrical


    rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence