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  • Carelessly daring always, he sauntered now into the station for which he had made, without a sign on him that could attract observation; he wore still the violet velvet Spanish-like dress, the hessians, and the broad-leafed felt hat with an eagle's feather fastened in it, that he had worn at the races; and with the gun in his hand there was nothing to distinguish him from any tourist "milor," except that in one hand he carried his own valise.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • As we were leaving the hotel for this purpose, a waiter requested of me to permit Mr. Meurice to speak a few words to me; which, having agreed to, I entered the little bureau where this Czar of hotels sits enthroned, and what was my surprise to learn the request he had to prefer, was nothing less than that I would so far oblige him as to vacate the room I possessed in the hotel, adding that my compliance would confer upon him the power to accommodate a "milor" who had written for apartments, and was coming with a large suite of servants.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 5 Charles James Lever 1839

  • As we were leaving the hotel for this purpose, a waiter requested of me to permit Mr. Meurice to speak a few words to me; which, having agreed to, I entered the little bureau where this Czar of hotels sits enthroned, and what was my surprise to learn the request he had to prefer, was nothing less than that I would so far oblige him as to vacate the room I possessed in the hotel, adding that my compliance would confer upon him the power to accommodate a "milor" who had written for apartments, and was coming with a large suite of servants.

    The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839

  • "Tell milor it will take a little longer," he kept saying, and back we would gallop to Raglan.

    The Sky Writer Geoff Barbanell 2010

  • “Any lessons which you please, milor!” cries Stenio;

    The Newcomes 2006

  • Charcoal was made in “milor”…Yes what would you say folks?

    Rocky Mountain High #2 « Climate Audit 2006

  • ‘I wish you a good night, mon petit milor,’ says he, — ‘stay, you will fall without your crutch,’ — and his eyes twinkled at me, and his face wore

    The Virginians 2006

  • The other was a little beetle-browed, hook-nosed, high-shouldered gentleman, whom his opposite companion addressed as milor, or my lord, in a very high voice.

    The Virginians 2006

  • “It was well for this milor that he fell at the first shot, my dear,” the exemplary young

    The Newcomes 2006

  • “Despardieux, milor,” said the Chevalier, “if he had stayed one moment, he should have had a torchon — what you call a dishclout, pinned to him for a piece of shroud, to show he be de ghost of one grand fanfaron.”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

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