Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Earl: Egad, sir, I do not know whether you will die on the gallows...
Randolph: I am glad of it. I hope you will always do it, sir...
...allowing him to have at you with the full force of his puny, flaccid mind. It is even more pleasurable to give than receive, to hone one's words until they gleam, and watch them fly in lovely arcs toward one's fellow creatures. How happy Sir Edward Coke must have been when he told Sir Walter Raleigh: "There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou." How empty Whistler must have felt at the end of his life when he lamented that he had "hardly a warm personal enemy left." Naturally, such...
...Sir William Herschel...
Judge William M. Marutani, a commission member from Philadelphia, put it bluntly to Hayakawa: "The Bill of Rights, as you will recall, provides that ... citizens can petition the government for redress of grievances... We understand, sir, do we not, that we are in an American society where any redress of grievances is customarily by some monetary means...