madam

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"MADAM, "I do myself the honour to write to you this evening, because I believe to-morrow will be a day of battle, and something forebodes in my breast that I shall fall in it.

From The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899 by Aitken, George A.

And the letter ran: "MADAM, "You will hardly believe the pleasure which it gave me to fulfill the two commissions which you were good enough to entrust to me in your last favour.

From The Secret of Sarek by Leblanc, Maurice

Thus, MADAM, to enjoy, together with the highest state of publick Splendor and Dignity all the retired Pleasures and domestick Blessings of private life; is the perfection of human Wisdom, as well as Happiness.

From The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended To which is Prefix'd, A Short Chronicle from the First Memory of Things in Europe, to the Conquest of Persia by Alexander the Great by Newton, Isaac, Sir

MADAM: I am very much tempted to take the situation you offer me.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 by Various

BATH, November 4,1770 MADAM: The post has been more favorable to you than I intended it should, for, upon my word, I answered your former letter the post after I had received it.

From Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1766-71 by Chesterfield, Philip Dormer Stanhope, Earl of