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Do but thee own part in this endeavour well, and we will save the young and tender maid thee calls madam.
Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird
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He's crazy-like, and from the corner where he sits so much, I can hear him whispering by the hour, sometimes of folks he used to know, and then of you, who we call madam.
Aikenside Mary Jane Holmes 1866
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I told her, yes, and insisted on it, that to do so was to be a gentlewoman; 'for,' says I, 'there is such a one,' naming a woman that mended lace and washed the ladies 'laced-heads;' she, 'says I,' is a gentlewoman, and they call her madam. '
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders Daniel Defoe 1696
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'she,' says I, 'is a gentlewoman, and they call her madam.'
The Fortunes And Misfortunes Of The Famous Moll Flanders Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731 1923
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I told her, yes, and insisted on it, that to do so was to be a gentlewoman; ‘for,’ says I, ‘there is such a one,’ naming a woman that mended lace and washed the ladies’ laced-heads; ‘she,’ says I, ‘is a gentlewoman, and they call her madam.’
Moll Flanders 2003
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"Yes, your aunt, indeed! on what side pray?" said she, very wrathful, because she was not called madam.
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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But she said not a word, for want of being called madam.
The Sleeping Bard or, Visions of the World, Death, and Hell Ellis Wynne 1702
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Ten works out that Donna isn't going to be traveling the stars with him ... and so, in the scene that RTD cut ... he was flat out lying to Rose about not being alone, because he will have "madam."
Humperdinck: "Now, if we only had a wheelbarrow..." rabid1st 2009
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Nazier kept addressing the prosecutor as "my dear" until she objected and told him to use the term "madam."
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"No-Kata," indicating the female sex, and somewhat corresponding to the word "madam."
Japanese Literature Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical Poetry and Drama of Japan Various 1880
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