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
That signor had left off staring, and gaping bewildered: and now sat coiled up snakelike, on a bench, his mouth muffled, and two bright eyes fixed on the lady, and twinkling and scintillating most comically.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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
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 Isaac Disraeli
"A proof, you ask me for a proof, signori," he exclaimed triumphantly.
From Master Tales of Mystery, Volume 3 by Francis J. (Francis Joseph) Reynolds
"What's the trouble, signori?" asked Ludlow, in the same easy tone, of those who were nearest.
From Among the Brigands by James De Mille
Cospetto! them signori make no more of a prince than we do of a quail in the season, on our little island.
From The Wing-and-Wing Le Feu-Follet by James Fenimore Cooper
These, the inscription tells you, are the lawless and savage signors of the state.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Contarino.—Illustrious signors, you are witnesses of the wager.
From The Bravo of Venice; a romance by M. G. (Matthew Gregory) Lewis
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
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
Impelled by a natural curiosity, I proceeded towards the council chamber of the right reverend signors; and, just as I reached the door, Mr. Adams stepped out.
From Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the Unied States by William Henry Seward