signor
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Jobs with Justice, is a signor of the IRS complaint.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 15, 2015
Strange to think that those two movie brats – mister shark attack and signor blood-and-pasta – have now turned into Hollywood's leading purveyors of quality historical drama.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 8, 2013
All 109 of them. peaboss, tobe82, notmuch, edinamikie, LarsHEriksen, donandgeorge, stevenjwillis, signor, Vesuvial, adamgilbey, asbb.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 11, 2011
We persuaded the doctor to allow us to take him for a drive, the signor at the same time expressing a wish to be driven to the Star and Garter, at Richmond, to dine.
From The Mapleson Memoirs, vol I 1848-1888 by Mapleson, James H.
Did il signor Dottore wish to wake her up?
From Vagaries by Munthe, Axel
Giuseppe Prezzolini noted, “The fact that they had to lead such difficult lives, made of the signori keen observers of men.”
From Slate ● Oct. 11, 2011
Long before the last stage, the rule of signori, was reached, however, the commune as originally constituted had everywhere undergone radical changes.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" by Various
"Pardon, signori," said I, stepping lightly over the gunwale, "I have had a sharp run for it;" and away we went!
From Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas by Lever, Charles James
The hapless Tasso was harassed by a most “stiff-necked” generation of “the learned Romans,” as he calls the Classicists—a mob of signori, of mechanical critics, protesting against his potent inventions.
From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac
A fine, big, bass voice answered him— Buona sera Miei signori, Buona sera, Buona sera.
From The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico by Fogazzaro, Antonio
Do, then, as the great signors of Constantinople do,—divert the anger and amuse the caprices of the present king.
From Catherine De Medici by Wormeley, Katharine Prescott
"A health to the ladies!" cried one of the signors.
From O. T. a Danish Romance by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Well, signors, that noble lady has not gone alone.
From Red Eve by Haggard, Henry Rider
It is a privilege your grey-haired signors solely can enjoy; but young men now-a-days may make some claims to it.
From The Young Duke by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
He has disappeared like magic, signors, and is nowhere to be found.
From The Phantom Ship by Marryat, Frederick
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