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  • "drawing-room," and Pickles assured her that even to set foot in that room was enough to make Connie a "lydy" on the spot.

    Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884

  • The office I spent hours and hours spritzing with soapy water and scraping off again (lydy and ddb helped), and then Bob the painter used some sort of liquid to get the last of it off before he could paint.

    mrissa: PSA: my mom and scheduling mrissa 2010

  • Today lydy came over to help me clean the basement.

    Barnstorming on an Invisible Segway lydy 2009

  • Return of Son Of lydy, for reasons best known to herself, has decided that we should have another Fourth Street Fantasy Convention.

    A Bland and Deadly Courtesy skzbrust 2007

  • "Well, you might say she's next lydy to Madame herself," explained

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • "If Missy wants a young lydy for a companion, well, she's a right to the kind of young lydy she wants."

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • Christopher some day marrying the young lydy, Miss Alicia.

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • "She and Miss Beryl here've been thinking she was some mysterious lydy or other -- Williams says they got it in their little heads she was a Queen hiding --"

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • "Miss Robin'll be mighty glad to see you, I'm sure; but she has a lydy guest for dinner."

    Red-Robin Jane Abbott

  • ’ I do not know whether she would be of the same opinion if she heard one of our costermongers bawling out: ` ’Ere’s yer foine termarters, lydy, hownly tuppence a pahnd.

    Chapter 7. The Standard American Pronunciation. 2. The Vowels Henry Louis 1921

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