sassenach

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You sassenach get all sensitive about this - in your most deranged states of mind, some of you imagine this is a sign of anti-English bigotry.

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  • You sassenach get all sensitive about this - in your most deranged states of mind, some of you imagine this is a sign of anti-English bigotry. —  Shuggy's Blog
  • Killing English by the 100's at the battle of the Little Bannock Burn was one of the happiest times of my life, oh I love ta kill the sassenach, and the Jap and the German, Americans and any wog also. —  Old Bitter Balls
  • Ye sassenach, take one peep--and then may yer stomach cave in before the meal's laid Kelly cautiously opened the oven door for a brief moment, affording Noll an instant's glimpse of three browning pies And there's six more of them hid here," added Kelly tantalizingly And you have the cruel nerve to tell that to a man dying of starvation?" —  Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands
  • For the rest of the time, at Lieutenant Prescott's own request, they treated him like one of themselves This sassenach is threatening to murder me, Lieutenant," complained Kelly, "just because I showed him a pie and wouldn't let him eat it on the spot That would be enough to make me commit murder, too, if I weren't a guest here," replied the lieutenant gravely, as he reached down the dipper and helped himself to a drink from the water bucket. —  Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands
  • Ye sassenach, take one peep -- and then may yer stomach cave in before the meal's laid! " —  Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants or, Handling Their First Real Commands
 

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