miggle

miggle

(ˈmɪɡəl)
n
(Games, other than specified) dialect US a marble used in games, esp one used as a target
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'Why, don't I know my son, and don't I know that this is exactly the way to hold him?' said Mrs Gowan, contemptuously; 'and do not these Miggles people know it, at least as well as I?
Michael@ Miggle M said: "Face is contorted into all kinds of different shapes.
So I'm turning away from the buzz of the tables like an electronic miliemeter is beating me back & i go back go back--hearing all th ese churchbells curling their long black metallic lollipop tongues > suddenly ringing in like the miggle of the night/& i stann for a wh ile in the cool of this sound against the soft vibration wall of the < doorway & at once I cd see why Asturias had leave me so astutely outside.
He received a gold medal at the 1883 California State Agricultural Fair for a four-panel screen depicting mythical maidens--a Druid priestess, Spanish and Chinese women, and Caroline, "Princess of the Panamints." He took a silver medal at the fair the following year for a canvas based on the Bret Harte tale "Miggles," depicting an unlettered girl tending to an old friend wasting away from disease.