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  • Some of the fellers on this blog think they got balls, but most of 'em are scared like old women that Obama's gonna take their guns and make 'em watch Urkel reruns dubbed in Roosian.

    Petzal on Palin: Who Thought McCain was That Smart? 2008

  • -- I hopes as how it'll be by a Roosian, or a Proosian, or a dacint Christian man of some sort or t'other, an 'not, faix, by one of thim yaller-faced

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant John B. [Illustrator] Greene

  • Last week the architeks rigged up somethin 'fierce and danced in' the streets of Paris, 'wid bullyvard cafes, they called 'em, built into the dance hall, an actress singin' the Marseillaise in a flag, and a Roosian hussy dancin 'in boots.

    Kenny Leona Dalrymple

  • "'She might have been a Roosian, or French or Dutch or Proosian,'" he quoted frivolously.

    The Wishing-Ring Man Margaret Widdemer 1931

  • In such an event, the chairman of today's meeting, to adopt the language of Gilbert and Sullivan, "might have been a Roosian, or French, or Turk, or Proosian, or perhaps I-tal-i-an."

    The Old Romance in Canada 1928

  • "I'm talking about the Roosian princess," chuckled Dart.

    The Short Cut Jackson Gregory 1912

  • An 'there's Smoke, the black little devil -- didn't the Roosians have him for three years in the salt mines of Siberia, for poachin' on Copper Island, which is a Roosian preserve?

    Chapter 6 1904

  • The Li'l Roosian hisself an't been to say thees dozen years.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • I'd so soon fall overboard in a gale o 'wind as go out to say wi' thic li'l Roosian like that ther.

    A Poor Man's House Stephen Sydney Reynolds 1900

  • I was shtandin ', when hell broke loose on the b'ys of me rigimint, and divil the wan o' me knows if I killed a Roosian that day or not.

    The Lane That Had No Turning, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

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