331 examples of missuses in sentences

"If it's so indifferent to ye where ye dwell," asked Mike, "why can't you keep at home, and let a body carry these cloaks and bundles of the missuses, out yonder to the house wither she's gone?" "Nick help carry 'em.

There's mother and the missus and Bob and Sarah and Aunt Jane and Uncle Jim, andwell, you know the lot.

But writing to mother and the missus and Sarah and Jim and the rest is different.

'That's why me and the missus is glad to get a lodger now and again,' he said; 'it all goes to the boat, every penny of it.

It cuts me to the heart to leave her; if anything happens to little John, whatever would me and my missus do!

'Me, and my missus, and little John, can never be thankful enough, sir,' he said, 'and when the other 'Little John' is afloat, as please God she soon will be, we hopes as how you will come and have a sail in her.'

"That tempest has blowed me a bit of luck," he said; "the missus will be much pleased with that brooch.

Your aunt, my old missus, says to me: "'David,' she says, 'you are to take young Master Robin behind you on the horse, where he can hold on by your belt, and you'll never lose sight of him till you give him into his father the Sheriff's hands, along with the bales of cloth; and you can tell the Sheriff he has been a very good boy during his visit'; and now I can't.

IT'S ONLY THE MISSUS, AND SHE DAREN'T SAY ANYTHING FOR FEAR I SHOULD DEMOBILISE.

"I leaves that 'ere to the missus.

"If my missus started playin' any o' them monkey tricks on me, givin' the wrong change an' sich, I'd put it acrost 'er," he said.

Neb had often been out in the ship, just to vary the scene; and he came to Havre in her, as a matter of course, when 'Masser Mile,' 'Miss Lucy,' and their two 'young Massers,' and two 'young Missuses,' were ready to come home.

"Missus wants to speak to you, sir, afore she goes," said the man.

" "That's always the way, Miss, I've noticed, when missuses was o' mind to get claar of payin' the honest dues.

And the missus won't hire a girl."

" "We had church wid de white preachers and dey tole us to mind our masters and missus and we would be saved; if not, dey said we wouldn'.

En missus, when de big gun fiahed, de runerway slaves comed out de woods frum all directions.

" "I had twelve chillun but right now missus, I can only 'member dese names:

John Kelley, a white man, often preached to them and would admonish them as follows; "you must obey your master and missus, you must be good niggers."

His wife, "Missus" Davis asked him excitedly, if he thought the "Yankees" were going to win.

When the beloved "Missus" was laid to rest by the side of her husband in the Catholic cemetery, the bewildered Hannah took the money to a white man, an old friend of the family, and asked him to buy the tickets back to Virginia.

"De young missus used to beat me a right smaht," he recalled with an amused smile.

"Soon as de young missus be gone, I go an' kick ovah her playhouse an' upset her toys.

His Mother was very rebellious toward her duties and constantly harrassed the "Missus" about letting her work in the fields with her husband until finally she was permitted to make the change from the house to the fields to be near her man.

The "missus" taught Claude's sister to sew and to the present day most of her female descendants have some ability in dress making.

331 examples of  missuses  in sentences