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  • 'I know the man to "sarve" you,' said Catchimwhocan.

    Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • 'Well, my dear Armine,' he resumed, when he reappeared and took the reins; 'now as I drive along, tell me all about it; for if there be a man in the world whom I should like to "sarve," it is thyself, my noble

    Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842

  • 'You'll thank us kindly, will you?' said one of the women; 'I'fackens, and so you shall, when we're fools enough to sarve you!

    Camilla 2008

  • Eugenia, not understanding him, was once more re-commencing; but the first woman said – 'I suppose you think we'll sarve you for looking at?

    Camilla 2008

  • I can be put upon any sarvice to sarve your Honner, and to sarve my deerest younge lady; which God grant! for I begin to be affearde for her, hearing what peple talck — to be sure your Honner will not do her no harme, as a man may say.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • I's a mis'ble sinner, and don't 'sarve to ax for a crumb; but jis holp me, and keep on a holpin' me till we all come out right in de en '; den ketch us up in de w'ite cloud unto glory.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • Than'd sarve a nussin 'Brigadier thet gits some ink to shed.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various

  • Thar's my idear: for I go for the doctrine that every able-bodied man should sarve his country and his neighbours, and fight their foes; and them that does is men and gentlemen, and them that don't is cowards and rascals, that's my idear.

    Nick of the Woods Robert M. Bird

  • Wonderful stuff this Palmyra sarve, came direct from Moscow, where the Archbishop of Abyssinia had brought it, but, havin 'got into debt, he was obliged to sell off; and from Moscow, which, as you all know, is a great seaport, it passed into the hands of the Grand Duke of

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

  • Dat meant if you can't sarve God here below, how is you gwine to git along wid him if you gits to Heben?

    Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 1 Work Projects Administration

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