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
Addio, signor conte and may Providence guide you and bring you back.
From Count Br?hl by Jo?zef Ignacy Kraszewski
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
"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 Charles James Lever
The signori may pluck their beards out by the roots.
From Little Novels of Italy by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
And as with trembling hands he twined the silk round his letters, he bade his pages invite to his board, next day, all the signors who had been implicated with him on the previous night.
From Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
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
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
The Polish actors made very attractive Italian signors.
From Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 by Stephen Graham
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
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