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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A Middle English form of source.

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  • In addition to the British Indian rupee that was known locally as a kaldar rupee, and the Russian ruble called surs, other silver currencies circulating in late-nineteenth-century Afghanistan include Chinese yamus and Tabrizi tomans.

    Connecting Histories in Afghanistan: Market Relations and State Formation on a Colonial Frontier 2008

  • How noal-siple man-ag to get out of eff cloth and into bathing surs in th pla, he didn 'tow but R'd wor, he did as he ttl down to wt.

    Baby In My Arms Harper, Madeline 1996

  • An gentermen surs jes tackle eny er them little uns er'n an they'd surprise yer; why they kin spit latin faster then er terbacky worm kin spit terbacky.

    Hanover; Or The Persecution of the Lowly A Story of the Wilmington Massacre. Jack Thorne

  • An gentermen surs jes tackle eny er them little uns er'n an they'd surprise yer; why they kin spit latin faster then er terbacky worm kin spit terbacky.

    Hanover; or, The Persecution of the Lowly. Story of the Wilmington Massacre 1863

  • Mais avant de terminer, je ne puis m’empecher de dire avec une entière assurance, que les adeptes en Turquie de cette doctrine, sont surs de la

    Bahá’í Administration 1897-1957 Shoghi Effendi 1927

  • Abbe Bergier, a heavy person, triumphantly refuted Holbach in eight hundred pages in his _Apologia de la Religion Chretienne contre l'Auteur du Christianisme devoile_, Paris, 1769, which finishes with the fatal prophecy, "Nous avons de surs garans de nos esperances: tant que le sang auguste de S. Louis sera sur le trone, _il n'y a point de revolutions a craindre ni dans la Religion ni dans la politique_.

    Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918

  • Abbe Bergier, a heavy person, triumphantly refuted Holbach in eight hundred pages in his Apologia de la Religion Chretienne contre l'Auteur du Christianisme devoile, Paris, 1769, which finishes with the fatal prophecy, “Nous avons de surs garans de nos esperances: tant que le sang auguste de S. Louis sera sur le trone, il n'y a point de revolutions a craindre ni dans la Religion ni dans la politique.

    Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914

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