Chapter Most Christian King to Mount of Transfiguration of M by Brewer's Readers Handbook

3. And sweeter still the third, whenever his little stammering tongue shall utter the grateful sound of “father,” “mother;” oh, that is the dearest joy of all!—Sheridan: Pizarro (altered from Kotzebue, 1799).

Mould (Mr.), undertaker. His face had a queer attempt at melancholy, sadly at variance with a smirk of satisfaction which might be read between the lines. Though his calling was not a lively one, it did not depress his spirits, as in the bosom of his family he was the most cheery of men, and to him the “tap, tap” of coffin-making was as sweet and exhilarating as the tapping of a woodpecker.—Dickens: Martin Chuzzlewit (1844).

Mouldy (Ralph), “a good-limbed fellow, young, strong, and of good friends.” Ralph was pricked for a recruit in sir John Falstaff’s regiment. He promised Bardolph forty shillings “to stand his friend.” Sir John, being told this, sent Mouldy home, and when justice Shallow remonstrated, saying that Ralph, “was the likeliest man of the lot,” Falstan replied, “Will you tell me, Master Shallow, how to choose a man? Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man? Give me the spirit, Master Shallow.”—Shakespeare: 2 Henry IV. act iii. sc. 2 (1598).

Moullahs, Mohammedan lawyers, from which are selected the judges.

Mount of Transfiguration. The two most popular opinions are that it was either Mount Tabor or one of the peaks of Mount Hermon. The great objection to the former is that Mount Tabor was fortified at the time. Tennyson considered the latter suggestion the most feasible, and it seems more likely, as Christ and His disciples were at the time in the vicinity of Cæsarea Philippi.