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  • I've been reading Craig Convault's stories in Aviation Week for the last 13 years off and on - he is the guv'ner.

    Sad Day for Aviation Week Readers - NASA Watch 2008

  • I'm sure the response was something other than "Cheers, guv'ner!"

    Archive 2005-06-01 2005

  • 'All right, guv'ner,' I told him, 'you run the show, and I'll take the tickets!'

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Great fren's with the men, guv'ner -- labor an 'capital, commun'ty' f int'rests, an 'all that -- hic!

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • "The guv'ner" had made threats to disinherit another of his children also, sister Gwendolen, who had married an Italian marquis with a string of titles and a dueling record.

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • He had been on the verge of marrying her once, only "the guv'ner" had sworn to disinherit him, and had presented him with a sum that would stagger the imagination, and that had staggered the virtue of "Little Bright-Eyes."

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • Guv'ner says so hisself, an 'the guv'ner knows -- the guv'ner's got a head for business, you bet!

    The Jungle Upton Sinclair 1923

  • 'I say, guv'ner,' she said, 'there'll be some of the coves from dahn our street, and they'll see us.'

    Liza of Lambeth 1919

  • I wasn't no good – I don't deceive you, guv'ner – a no account man I was, swelp me!

    Harding's Luck Edith 1909

  • Guv'ner says so hisself, an 'the guv'ner knows -- the guv'ner's got a head for business, you bet!

    The Jungle 1906

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