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Patissot, very much embarrassed, was bowing at every word of his friend's, as though moving automatically, and he murmured, stammering: "What a su--su--superb property!"

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  • This was not like the su-chi or the plodding onulets of the Argivian camp There was an intelligence within those eyes and a malignancy behind that intelligence. —  JEFF GRUBB
  • Prosecutors found that Yeo Taek-su, a Cheong Wa Dae official during Roh's presidency, received some 700 million won from Kang, who was detained Thursday on charges of embezzlement and tax evasion.
  • The Blamites had never abandoned their efforts to press in every conceivable way their claim to the Sebbeneh-su, the supremacy, which, prior to Kbammurabi, had been exercised by their ancestors over the whole of Mesopotamia; they swooped down on Karduniash with an impetuosity like that of the Assyrians, and probably with the same alternations of success and defeat. —  History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 6 (of 12)
  • Observing my partiality for vishner-su, the Governor kindly offers me a flask of the syrup to take along; which I am, however, reluctantly compelled to refuse, owing to my inability to carry it. —  Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran
  • Patissot, very much embarrassed, was bowing at every word of his friend's, as though moving automatically, and he murmured, stammering: "What a su--su--superb property!" —  Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant
 

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