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  • But "Missie" had been to college, and she was ready with any proposition in advance studies.

    Unwritten History 1919

  • But "Missie" as we called her, not at all discouraged, gave all her attention to the one pupil who continued, and besides, the studies were divided between the Bible and secular studies.

    Unwritten History 1919

  • She dropt her lighted pipe on the floor, hustled and scraped and curtsied to the gentle lady over and over, and caressed the beautiful little 'Missie' with emotions which bordered on questionable kindness.

    An Historical Account of the Settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America 1893

  • "Missie," she said, "my dear, ye just show your ignorance: for there's nothing so hard to take a good set as a fine muslin; and the maist difficult is aye the maist particular, as ye would soon learn if ye gave yoursel 'to ainy airt."

    Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago Margaret 1891

  • "Missie," said the ill-favoured messenger below, fixing his one eye upon her poor sorrow-stricken face, and yawning.

    Jess Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • "Missie," sighed Anna's maid, "see Mahs 'Chahlie dah? stan'in' on de woodworks o 'dat big gun?"

    Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

  • "Missie," sighed the old woman, "y'ain't neveh in yo 'life stopped to think dat niggehs is got feelin's, is you?"

    Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi George Washington Cable 1884

  • Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov or Ursula von Kardoff ( "Diary of a Nightmare"), to recognise Evans's complete denial of a moral dimension as tendentious.

    signandsight.com 2009

  • Marie "Missie" Vassiltchikov or Ursula von Kardoff ( "Diary of a Nightmare"), to recognise Evans's complete denial of a moral dimension as tendentious.

    signandsight.com 2009

  • It was shortly after Melissa "Missie" Stredney's first lab section that her unusual behavior began.

    Rate Your Students 2009

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