Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sir, how charmingly you talk! No one can be stupid who is blessed with your company," said Sue, with a coquettish glance...
...THERE'S a storm blowin' up, sir...
...doubt, sir; no doubt...
...qualities are what they are. Take my word for it; training don't pay. To put it concretely, "It ain't what it's cracked up to be." Why, look at me. I've trained! - rowed, base-balled, foot-balled; and what good's it done me? None! No sir, none! But I've grown a deuced sight wiser than I ever was before. I've learned a secret. I've learned why it did me no good; why it does no one any good; and why so many fools, in spite of its uselessness, still train...
...called out lustily to the pipemen below, "Put on that three-inch pipe;" and when they had done it, he cried, "Now throw me the strongest stream you can, right in this window;" and in dashed the stream with powerful force, right through the casement where he stood. Well, sir, I never should have believed it, if I had not stood right there and seen it; but, sir, that man took the child under one arm and throwing the other right around that stream of water he came sliding down on it, slow and easy, till he touched the ground...