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  • F is for fohn, but not like when I call the ladies.

    Mathematical Induction for Seven Year Olds Julianne 2008

  • .. the overwhelming majority of dear husbands would have said "designated hitter" that's a baseball term ladies.

    From The Mouths of Husbands - Test Your P.Q.! Marina Geigert 2008

  • Let him only know by one sign from her that she did wish it, and he would take himself off at once to the farther side of the globe, and live in a world contaminated by no noble lords and titled ladies.

    Lady Anna 2004

  • Now, when he got to Paris, he did have two very significant love affairs, both with titled ladies.

    Franklin: The Essential Founding Father 2002

  • Mr. Sleary emptied his glass and recalled the ladies.

    Hard Times 2002

  • "Yes, sir, -- please come in, sir, -- I'll call the ladies."

    Prudence Says So Ethel Hueston

  • You, for example, indulge in romantic love-affairs; you must have titled ladies.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Not there are washer-women so truthful, unselfish, and noble in character that they are far superior as women to many whom we may fairly call ladies.

    Girls and Women Harriet E. (AKA E. Chester} Paine

  • 'I'm not sure travel or experience is what we chiefly prize – in ladies.'

    The Convert 1907

  • They said it was mostly an excuse for drunken orgies in which all sense of decency was cast aside, to say nothing of cigarettes being brazenly smoked by so-called ladies.

    Ma Pettengill Harry Leon Wilson 1903

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