Ciss

"Ciss," he began suddenly, and at once with a laugh corrected himself -- "Miriam, I mean."

The Emancipated George Gissing 1880

The 1,360 computers making up Ciss were spread across more than 21 separate sites.

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The creation and operation of the Canadian Internetworked Scientific Supercomputer (Ciss) was being co-ordinated by Wolfgang J ‚ Äö √ Ñ ‚ àûger, Paul Lu and Jonathan Schaeffer from the computer science department at the University of Alberta.

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It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was quickly appeased.

Ulysses 2003

"I should not think dear old Ciss exactly knew the meaning of the word."

Cecilia de Noël Lanoe Falconer

"Mistaken for once, Miss Ciss," said the student, looking up with a smile.

Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

It was all no use soothering him with no, nono, baby, no and telling him about the geegee and where was the puffpuff but Ciss, always readywitted, gave him in his mouth the teat of the suckingbottle and the young heathen was quickly appeased.

Ulysses James Joyce 1911

The first was to Miss Cissy Higgins: -- 'Dear Ciss, -- I dare say you would like to know that Mr.B. has proposed to me.

The Paying Guest George Gissing 1880

Suppose, Ciss, we all of a sudden lost everything, and we had to go and live in a garret, and I had to get work as a clerk at five-and-twenty shillings a week.

The Emancipated George Gissing 1880

"Ciss-s-s -- phistle -- phut-snap," chorused the juveniles, who had been disturbed by their mamma, treading upon one, scratching another on the side of the head, and giving number three such a crack with her wing that the little fellow was knocked out of the nest into an old sooty part of the chimney, and came back such a little guy that his mother hardly knew him.

Featherland How the Birds lived at Greenlawn George Manville Fenn 1870