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- proper noun A
diminutive ofSusan and of related femalegiven names .
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Examples
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However, his most recent book, written in collaboration with his wife, Susy, is a guide to exploring out-of-the-way corners of western Mexico and is appropriately titled: Outdoors in Western Mexico.
John Pint 1996
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She called Susy out of her cupboard with a glad voice.
The Children of Wilton Chase L. T. Meade 1884
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The daughter he called Susy was important to the writer, whose real name was Samuel Clemens.
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Certainly Mrs. Peyton was stouter and stronger fibred; the wonderful Californian climate had materialized her figure, as it had their Eastern fruits and flowers, but it was stranger that "Susy" -- the child of homelier frontier blood and parentage, whose wholesome peasant plumpness had at first attracted them -- should have grown thinner and more graceful, and even seemed to have gained the delicacy his wife had lost.
Susy, a story of the Plains Bret Harte 1869
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'Yes, Susy, that is very true; but very few of us do our duty, you know, in this world.'
A Woman Intervenes Robert Barr 1881
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After that, he seemed to remember that they sat a long time silent, and that his next utterance was a boyish outburst against the tyranny of the existing order of things, abruptly followed by the passionate query why, since he and she couldn't alter it, and since they both had the habit of looking at facts as they were, they wouldn't be utter fools not to take their chance of being happy in the only way that was open to them, To this challenge he did not recall Susy's making any definite answer; but after another interval, in which all the world seemed framed in a sudden kiss, he heard her murmur to herself in a brooding tone: "I don't suppose it's ever been tried before; but we might --."
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The document was a tribute to Olivia "Susy" Clemens, who inspired two of his stories.
Mark Twain Unpublished Document Gets $242,000 At Auction 2010
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"Susy," he whispered, "Susy," but the little figure never raised its head.
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"Susy," he caught both her hands in his, "do you love me?"
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"Susy," replied Mr. Linley, "when we do such a thing for the very poorest and meanest, we do it for the Lord."
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