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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See sorrow, n., 4.
Examples
“Pon my soul it did, thin, -- it makes me happy whin sorra thing else in the wide world will comfort me," replied Pat.”
“When the people sees _that_," says the Waiver to himself, "the sorra one will dar 'for to come near me.”
“What with foxes one day, stags the next and hares the next, there's sorra a born thing they wouldn't hunt given there's smell enough in it, 'says the lad.”
“But, you see, if all our people knew that same, sorra a bit o 'money would go to the praste's pocket in comparison to what he gets now.”
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
“Och, but it was a sore time o 'grief whin sorra a mouthful were left for the bit childer and the ould people who were weak before wi' ould age!”
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse
“Faith, it's sorra a ha'porth cud she course or lep these fifteen years.”
“Weary on the English hay, anÂ’ sorra take the wheat!”
“And since he's in no condition to go to his shtate-room an 'unlock the ship's safe, an' sorra wan av me knows the combination, the divil a look will ye have at our papers.”
“Well, no more do I, sorra bit," confessed Mrs. McCartey serenely.”
“He sorra now!" the little man said to Johnnie Green.”
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