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Examples

  • Looks like the piblic transportation sarvice is learning their Onglish with Officer Crabtree.

    Tuesday is Ladies’ day | Engrish.com 2005

  • Not that I mind your going to sea, Jack, as your father did before you; but what he says about the sarvice is a confounded lie.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Let a man do his duty, and the sarvice is a good one; and a man who is provided for as he is, ought to be ashamed of himself to speak as he has done, the old rascal.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Not that I mind your going to sea, Jack, as your father did before you; but what he says about the sarvice is a confounded lie.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • Let a man do his duty, and the sarvice is a good one; and a man who is provided for as he is, ought to be ashamed of himself to speak as he has done, the old rascal.

    Poor Jack Frederick Marryat 1820

  • As for the wild fish, we were informed by a sharp boy who volunteered to show us the chalybeate spring, and who guided us through the woods barefoot, making himself ill with "sarvice" berries as he went, -- we were instructed by this naturalist that the trout were eaten away from the streams "by the alligators."

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 Various

  • I will pray for you night and day, my dearest, my kindest, my goodest young lady, who have been so badly used; and I am very sorry I cannot come to do you love and sarvice; which will ever be in the harte of mee to do, if it was in my power: who am

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • 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

  • Dear Molly, I recommend myself to your prayers, being, with my sarvice to Saul, your ever loving, and discounselled friend, WIN.

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

  • No more at present, but my sarvice to Saul and the rest of our fellow-sarvents, being,

    The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

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