pairson

• “These will be mounted in pairson a large barge, which will be permanently moored where it is needed to supply power and possibly some desalination to a shore settlement or industrial complex.”

  Nuclear power reactor

• “Is she our sort of pairson?" asked Ellen doubtfully.”

  The Judge

• “Do you know, you're not like an elderly pairson at all.”

  The Judge

• ““The body was that of a well-nourished pairson,” he remarked, his bright inquisitive eyes fixed upon the Coroner.”

  Flowers for the Judge

• “And then, while Macbeth had his faults, he was a verra accomplished pairson, and I respect and like him for that.”

  Between You and Me

• “They've a verra keen sense o 'the ridiculous, and they're as fond of a joke that's turned against themselves as of one they play upon another pairson.”

  Between You and Me

• “It always reminded her of her pore, dear brother what was drownded las 'summer, an' a sick pairson made a quare lot o 'extra work, even when it was considered in the wages.”

  The Secret of a Happy Home (1896)

• “oh, I see ... well then, the only famous pairson, I've ever met, was mel gibson, once when he was in Dublin.”

  wendchymes Diary Entry

• “There's a graat dail of ignorance consailed aboot my pairson. ”

  Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885

• “What I'm tellin 'them is," continued Mrs. Griffen, warming with her subject, "maybe that thing was a pairson that's dead, an 'might be owin”

  All on the Irish Shore Irish Sketches

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