Do we say sou or sue

sou 153 occurrences

I wouldn't give a sou for any of these republicans if they chance to fall into the clutches of King WILLIAM.

"Mr. Brown, look across that point of land sou-west the islandget your glass.

Grandet was too gentle to revolt, but her pride forbade her ever asking a sou from her husband.

A knot of children relinquished their tantalising occupation of hanging round the pan of charcoal over whose glow chestnuts were cracking appetisingly, and the stall of the lady who with amazing celerity fried pancakes on a hot plate, and sold them dotted with butter and sprinkled with sugar to the lucky possessors of a sou.

According to the evidence of a domestic everybody tad recourse to this unfortunate deposit, and it is stated in the instructions that the accused had left by will to his son a sum of 4000 francs in bank notes and gold, deposited in the hands of his aunt, Madame Danelair, while there is clear proof that before the days of the Commune he did not possess a sou.

Sou-wa-nas, South Wind, The great Story-teller.

Sou-wa-na-que-na-peke, The Voice of the South Wind Birds.

It is even probable that each time that money was used in large sums the pound or the sou of gold was represented more by ingots of metal than by stamped coin.

The third of the sou of gold, which was coined on state occasions, seems to have been used only as a commemorative medal, to be distributed amongst the great officers of state, and this circumstance explains their extreme rarity.

He directed that the silver sou should exactly contain the twenty-second part by weight of the pound.

mine, for which I have only paid a sou (about twenty-two francs of present money), or yours, which have cost so much?"

For [Greek: sou] there are 'Const.

a. Apelthon deixon seauton to hierei kai prosenenke peri tou katharismou sou, kathos prosetaxe Mousaes, hina ae marturion touto humin.] Luke v. 14.

[Greek: Apeltheon deixon seauton to hierei, kai prosenenke peri tou katharismou sou, kathos prosetaxen Mousaes, eis marturion autois.] v.l.

Curtis Jadwin was a man about thirty-five, who had begun life without a sou in his pockets.

At all the best possible points he interposed suggestive questions, and set up objections in the quietest manner for the Doctor to knock down, smiling ever the while as a man may who truly and genuinely does not care a sou for truth on any subject not practically connected with his own schemes in life.

Although she must have wanted money, it did not occur to her to extract a sou from the stranger beyond the just price.

At last, when I had dawdled quite an extra half-hour, it came to an end, and the usual sums on the margin of the bill beganAugustus adds up every item to see no sou has been overcharged.

De cette façon, les vingt mille francs vont à ses enfants et les créanciers ne peuvent toucher un sou.

"La Compagnie m'en donnera pour mon argent jusqu'au dernier sou, quand je devrais en mourir," répondit le bonhomme.

SOU, m., petite monnaie de cuivre, valant 5 centimes.

A satirist might have repeated the apochryphal naïveté of Marie Antoinette, who asked why the people wanted bread when they could buy such nice cakes for a sou!

"You could buy their souls for a sou.

"Butbut I have a cab at the door," I faltered, remembering, with a sinking heart, that I had not a sou to pay the driver.

"Madame Le Roi, a daughter of General Hoche, told me (22nd January, 1840), that as she was driving on the boulevard a day or two ago, a sou piece was thrown with great violence at the window of her carriage, smashing it to pieces.

sue 985 occurrences

So that Schepstein, the note-shaver, on his way to a profitable appointment at 11 A.M., heard the hour strike (thirty-five minutes in advance of the best professional opinion) from the House of Silvery Voices, and was impelled to the recklessness of hiring a passing taxi, thereby reaching his destination with half an hour to spare and half a dollar to lack, for which latter he threatened to sue the Mordaunt Estate's tenant.

Claude began talking to Sue, a painter who was usually with a sad charmer named Jim.

He and Sue exchanged smiles and private greetings, but they did not hug.

One evening in the Depresso, Sue came over to his table and asked what he was reading.

" Sue wrinkled her nose.

Sue giggled.

"So, where are you from, Sue?" "Michigan, same as Claudeexcept he's from the U.P." "What are you doing in Woodstock?" "Art Students League.

Patrick stood in front of the small blaze; Sue sat on her jeans, her knees drawn up to her breasts.

Sue hadn't moved.

"O.K., Patrick, see you," Sue said, stopping in front of the Depresso.

Sue and Jim were at the bar.

Sue and Jim weren't there.

She, too, was from Michigan, like Sue and Claude, an odd coincidence.

Sue was a model.

Utterlybut if they come and sue to us for peace we might graciously consider their offer.

Desiring to attend the convention, we concluded to go on, submitting to this rank injustice and dishonesty, until our return, when we determined to sue the proprietor of that line of stages.

I never found it convenient to sue Mr. Coe, and so the matter ended.

"When doctors or lawyers don't do things right can't you sue them and get your money back?

In county matters and state matters they speak for the town, and if it is a party to a law-suit they represent it in court; for the New England town is a legal corporation, and as such can hold property, and sue and be sued.

'I'll sue you for damages.'

'And I,' retorted the carpenter, 'will sue you for the money you owe me!'

Sue Barton, visiting nurse.

Sue Barton, rural nurse.

The suitors of Sue.

Bunny Brown and his sister Sue at Shore Acres.

Do we say   sou   or  sue