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  • I shall weep if you say so, only -- pardon, mamselle, but do not, if you please, make that weep too long, a few sniffs only, for I have not with me in this fleshling costume ze

    Dorothy Dale : a girl of today Margaret Penrose

  • "It is hardly worth mentioning, mamselle, but a bullet --"

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

  • "Yes, of course, mamselle; it was a good way to arouse your sympathy," he admitted with an air of pride.

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

  • "No; she would not make a good picture, mamselle," he answered with a sigh.

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

  • Could the American mamselle remember what the girl's first name was?

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

  • "Not so much that, mamselle, but I know she is grieving for me," he replied.

    Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross 1887

  • His eyes flashed so terribly, one might well fear him, and I thanked Heaven when mamselle sent me home from the park.

    Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

  • "But you must eat something, mamselle; you must have some supper!"

    Old Fritz and the New Era Peter [Translator] Langley 1843

  • Since your chain's not worth anything -- a present from some _mamselle_ and the watch is a gold one, I've left you the chain as a keepsake.

    Best Russian Short Stories Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin 1818

  • He heard their voices now, the more likely lads calling out Parleyvoo or Bonjour mamselle to the feminine gender that gathered to look, the way they had it mistook for some place foreign where they’d landed: their accents of the English Midlands queer as Russian in this fashionable town.

    At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

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