Nor would he have guessed that less than two short months before this girl had been a skin-clad native of the North who had Mushed for thirty days unattended through the heart of the barren grounds.
"The Gun-Brand"
James B. Hendryx
"Mr. Twist," she called shrilly, "if you don't come in right away and have your food before it gets all Mushed up with cold I guess you'll be sorry."
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim
"And as for the money for the suit o' clothes, why, you get a matter of a pound a-week at your weaving, Master Marner, and you're a young man, eh, for all you look so Mushed.
"Silas Marner The Weaver of Raveloe"
George Eliot