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Word: sirs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Startled Soph. - It - it's under my chair, sir: I wasn't using it! - Acta Columbiana...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXCHANGES. | 11/7/1879 | See Source »

...then it must have been good. I like the Advocate; it has such nice love-stories. But, sir, why have you not been to call on me this...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A DIALOGUE UPON COLLEGE HAPPINESS. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...character upon the blackboard, and the student pronounces it after him until it is firmly fixed. Great delicacy of ear and eye is required, and much mechanical drudgery must be endured. Patience is the first requisite. No interpreter is needed until some advance has been made, and even then Sir Thomas Wade's Progressive Course in Colloquial and Documentary Chinese will go far towards supplying his place. A knowledge of Chinese sufficient for business purposes may be acquired in two, or at most, three years; and one of the subscribers to our professorship acquired it in six months. To obtain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CHINESE ELECTIVE. | 10/24/1879 | See Source »

...Chinese and Quaternions, sir," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR ANNEXED SISTERS. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

...Cultured girls don't marry, sir," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR ANNEXED SISTERS. | 10/10/1879 | See Source »

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