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  • I know not how true it is, but I heard that this fashion is already being taken up by some of New York city's fashionable freaks of "sassiety" women.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • A FEW seasons ago when Audrey Beardsleyism was the rage and Oscar Wilde a lion in "sassiety" gay plaid stockings in Persian or Audrey Beardsley designs sold as high as $7.50 a pair, enough I should say to enable a poor devil like me to live a week.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • Not long ago a Paris druggist communicated to a few French "sassiety" women the plan of perfuming the skin by means of hypodermic injections.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • For the conventional, whether found among Fijians as they were, or in Mayfair as it is, whenever it is vexatious and merely serves as a cordon to separate "sassiety" from society, detracts from the respectability of humanity, and is in itself vulgar.

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Given alla them comments, seems only proper to serve up this Hillbilly Bonus story from Hillbilly Comics #2, whar'in a buncha' high falootin' sassiety folk git outy-smarted by Gumbo Galahad, Screwball of the Hills!

    Gumbo Galahad is Laffin' at Yo'. Brian Hughes 2009

  • Given alla them comments, seems only proper to serve up this Hillbilly Bonus story from Hillbilly Comics #2, whar'in a buncha' high falootin' sassiety folk git outy-smarted by Gumbo Galahad, Screwball of the Hills!

    Archive 2009-02-01 Brian Hughes 2009

  • Charley McKelvey still doing the sassiety stunt as heavy as ever.

    Babbit 2004

  • Yo's gwine enter high sassiety presen'ly, and yo's gotter do Severndale credit.

    Peggy Stewart at School

  • "I reckon she's pining for the sassiety o 'another dude."

    Ted Strong's Motor Car Edward C. Taylor

  • He's holdin 'forth for another of dem high sassiety shindigs to-night.

    The Voice on the Wire Eustace Hale Ball

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