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Examples
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So let's bless the Royal Majesty, and bless the Royal son, sirs,
The Guy Fawkes Song 1998
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While searching through those dusty vaults with portable gas-light, sirs,
The Guy Fawkes Song 1998
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That is, he would have gone that way to perpetrate his guilt, sirs,
The Guy Fawkes Song 1998
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Clotted blood is thrown up, in colour very black, sirs,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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It differs from the last, by the particles thrown off, sirs,
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 13, 1841 Various
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The Christian world, indeed, may say we ought not to allow it, sirs,
War Poetry of the South Various
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He took the ball one-handed two inches from the ground, and received the applause which followed the effort with a rather bored look, as if he were saying, 'My good sirs,
A Prefect's Uncle 1928
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I trust well that a fool --- I mean, d'ye see me, sirs,
Ivanhoe 1892
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Spanish prisoners; and we, in great terror and hunger, went forward and over the mountains till we came to a little river which ran northward, which seemed to lead into the Northern Sea; and there Mr.O. -- who, sirs,
Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847
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On tithes and on taxation I enlarged with skill and zeal, sirs,
Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843
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