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Examples
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'I know the man to "sarve" you,' said Catchimwhocan.
Henrietta Temple A Love Story Benjamin Disraeli 1842
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'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
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'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
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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
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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
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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.
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Than'd sarve a nussin 'Brigadier thet gits some ink to shed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 Various
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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
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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
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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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