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
Brilliant streaks of red and green light up the dreary place where the signor is working.
From The Strand Magazine, Vol. 27, No. 161, May 1904 by Various
“No, signor captain; on the contrary, a man who pretends to have been their prisoner, and who says he has just escaped from them.”
From The Finger of Fate A Romance by Mayne Reid
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
That is his message, signori, to one in this house.
From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
"Perhaps the signori would deign to come under our roof, father," said the maiden.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
He embraced the orator, embraced the signori one after another; greetings flashed about, tears, laughter, clappings on the back.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
No, signori, I am not ambitious, and so I shall not lay myself open to that sort of snubbing.
From The Recipe for Diamonds by Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
"Amen!—and now, then, what is your force? for these eighty or a hundred signors of the Aventine,—worthy men, doubtless,—scarce suffice for a revolt!"
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
The patrons of players and buffoons, signors and signorinas, are their friends.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
But herein methinks the politic signors of Venice forget what King David saith, 'Except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.'
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
At daybreak we will meet in even numbers these quarrelsome signors.
From Rule of the Monk or, Rome in the Nineteenth Century by Giuseppe Garibaldi
Some lords and signors were there without their dames.
From The Young Duke by Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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