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
Would you had seen her, signor, as I beheld her then, or as one other beheld her! you would acknowledge that you had never met with her equal in beauty.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
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 James H. Mapleson
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
Be seated, signori," I said to them, "and take one of these cigars.
From A Roman Singer by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford
That is his message, signori, to one in this house.
From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
We had a mixed fry, and macaroni, and ravaioli, and a melon, one course after another, just like signori.
From Lippincott's Magazine, September, 1885 by Various
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
Why, signors, and my honest neighbours, will you impute that as a neglect of my friends, which is an imperfection in me?
From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer
At last the grave and reverend signors had made their choice; Bullinger’s Decades, at nine shillings, was selected, and Beza’s New Testament, at sixteen: Aubrey received the money, gave the change, and delivered the books.
From It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot by M. (Madelaine) Irwin
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 Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield
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
Of the Frangipani, the haughtiest signors were no more; and Luca, the dastard head of the Savelli, had long since saved himself by flight.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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