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- noun Plural form of
ess ., the name of the letter S.
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Examples
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You know I laked dem matt'esses 'cause when de chinches got too bad you could shake out dat straw and burn it, den scald de tick and fill it wid fresh straw, and rest in peace again.
Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 4 Work Projects Administration
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Eu que não sou académico coisíssima nenhuma, as vezes me junto a esses debates umas vezes para fazer um “check up”, quantificar a minha ignorância e outras vezes para ver o tanto de “assumptions” que os verdadeiros académicos trazem nas suas maletas.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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Mas hoje, Luís Inácio Lula da Silva ouviu, sem dúvida, a frase mais gratificante de sua carreira, que simplesmente quebrou as pernas de todos esses pseudo-argumentos para criticar sua carreira política.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Does the country play a new role in the world? 2009
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É impressionante como as pessoas expressam as suas imaginações, os seus desejos, até certo ponto as suas demagogias, explicitamente, sem se importar se esses seus anseios são verdadeiramente os anseios de uma população, são os anseios porque primam uma sociedade na busca da sua melhoria de vida.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Students arrested for demonstrating in the Senate 2009
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Todos esses municípios enfrentam problemas de seca desde o final do ano passado, mas a situação se agravou e as atividades agropecuárias estão bem prejudicadas, segundo informou a Defesa Civil.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: When climate change meets cyber-activism 2009
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Tommy looked at Doug, hissed, “yessssssssss…sssssss..sssssss?” dragging out the esses endlessly so that he never stopped making a noise.
When We Stopped Sound Kimberly Ann Southwick 2011
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Or rather, I should say: And then, the cosmos of the Gallis - the mythological gender variant priest/esses of the Roman goddess Cybelle - opened up to swallow us whole in a single gulp.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) Roya Rastegar 2010
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Não tenho fibra para discutir esses conceito “chatos”.
Global Voices in English » Mozambique: House of the Flying Azagaias 2009
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Or rather, I should say: And then, the cosmos of the Gallis - the mythological gender variant priest/esses of the Roman goddess Cybelle - opened up to swallow us whole in a single gulp.
Roya Rastegar: Justin Bond and the House of Whimsy: Re:Galli Blonde (A Sissy Fix) Roya Rastegar 2010
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É só verem a historia das trocas de telefonemas para apanharem e trazerem a luz esses marmanchos que vão bater o peito na missa todos os domingos e comungam e ca fora no dia a dia abusam das menores.
Global Voices in English » East Timor: Thoughts on Abortion A Few Days Before Law Approval 2009
chained_bear commented on the word esses
Plural of the letter S.
"...although the chapel was not large it was built of white marble ornamented with gilt brass esses, and it made a striking contrast with the rest of the town, mostly thatched, homely, vague in outline."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 214
March 7, 2008