suer

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His nearest pur suer in the N.C.A.A. 200-yard breaststroke finals was yards behind.

From Time Magazine Archive

But awm suer a lass more fond an’ true    No lad could ivver find: But a lad like thee is easily fun—    False, faithless, and unkind.”

From Revised Edition of Poems by Bill o'th' Hoylus End

Bus.—Shall not we doe as the kynge does; manners give place to pollycie and I am suer greate formall outsyds thynke it an aspyringe pollycie to doe or seeme to doe as the kinge dothe.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

If ever menn weare madd then suer my master is not well in his witts, and all about this wenshe; here's such sendeinge and seekeinge, hurriinge and posteinge, and all to no purpose.

From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 4 by Bullen, A. H. (Arthur Henry)

Instead of sœur, sister, Joinville still uses sereur, which was the right form of the oblique case, but was afterwards replaced by the nominative suer or sœur.

From Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)