Sarra definitions and example sentences on Wordnik

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Do you know any thing about plants or flowers Oh thin, that I may never sup sarra (sorrow), but that's just what I'm fwhit fwhor I'm afeared this scoundrel is but an imposthor afther all," whispered Lanigan to the other servants; "but in ordher to make sure, we'll try him.

—Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One

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I thought, sarra, I told you to nidificate and hatch your wild project undher some other wing than mine I only entrate you," replied our poor hero, "to suffer me to join the class I left while I was sick, for about another year. — The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
Do you know any thing about plants or flowers Oh thin, that I may never sup sarra (sorrow), but that's just what I'm fwhit fwhor I'm afeared this scoundrel is but an imposthor afther all," whispered Lanigan to the other servants; "but in ordher to make sure, we'll try him. — Willy Reilly The Works of William Carleton, Volume One
The nobles who left for Palestine clad in armour, came back in the rich stuffs of the East; and their costumes, pouches (aumonieres sarra-sinoises), and caparisons excited the admiration of the needle-workers of the West. — Reviews
Thou's nowder wesh dishes nor sarra the swine. " — A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time
Nergal-sarra-uzur (Nergal-sharezer) 560 — Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"