And when it comes to you, allus so cheerful, getting Mopish-you, who finds somethin' good in things that others fret at, and makes us warm and comfurble instead o' shivering with fright-why, it's sixes and sevens all a topsy turvy anyhow, and no one to look up to nowhere!"
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson
Yet the fellow, who, though a Mopish besotted fellow, did not speak like a madman, did swear that he did fire it: and did not this like a madman; for, being tried on purpose, and landed with his keeper at the Tower Wharf, he could carry the keeper to the very house.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
"I never saw you so Mopish," angrily exclaimed Mrs. Gray, "never!"
"Rachel Gray"
Julia Kavanagh