"Mucilage" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... letter and package?" says I. "Watcher take me for? Think I got mucilage on my shoes? I was there ...
— Torchy • Sewell Ford
... is full of Mucilage. Take it and Pour some Mucilage into Papa's Slippers. Then when Papa comes Home it will be a Question whether there will be more Stick in the ...
— Eugene Field, A Study In Heredity And Contradictions - Vol. I • Slason Thompson
... certain kind of mustard. And yet this mustard has become a part of me. Or, I have become a part of this mustard. Further, I know more of an ink, a brand of hams, a kind of cigarette, and a novelist than any man living. I went by train to see a friend in the country, and after passing through a patent mucilage, some more hams, a South African Investment Company, a Parisian millinery firm, and a comic journal, I alighted at a new and original kind of corset. On my return journey the road ...
— Men, Women, and Boats • Stephen Crane
... opening of the Cooeperative Store, she surprised him at his editorial desk. This was a deal table in a corner of the printing office. It was littered with proof, scratch paper, scissors, mucilage, pencils, inkwells, and a case of "pie." He was engaged in sorting this. His collar and cravat hung upon a nail on the wall above the table. He was in his shirt sleeves. His hair ...
— The Co-Citizens • Corra Harris
... The mucilage on postage stamps may not be unhealthy, but persons having a good many to affix to letter envelopes, circulars, newspapers, or other wrappers every day, will consume considerable gum during a year. A less objectionable mode of affixing stamps than the one usually ...
— Scientific American Supplement, No. 492, June 6, 1885 • Various
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