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[Page 140] seeing that the all-potent "masther" is once more installed there, and that the Millennium is evidently just about to begin!
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“The masther should be the masther, no doubt,” said the Irishman.
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-- 'Oh,' says he, 'my masther is the Prence Ragin.'
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 390, September 19, 1829
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"The masther should be the masther, no doubt," said the Irishman.
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The "masther" appears to take a view of the subject which might have been with great advantage more widely distributed among Irish proprietors of the improving sort.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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What would be urbanity on the part of the real "masther" is in the middleman viewed as deceit.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.
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The owld fagot made a charm to call her masther, an’ that minnit he was shtandin’ be her side, bowin’ an’ schrapin’ an’ shmilin’ like a gintleman come to tay.
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When she war gone, the masther he soon come back into the house, and begun calling for the sperrits again, like mad; and
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All Irish servants especially love to pay respect to the “young masther;” but Herbert now was to be their master no longer, and the probability was that he would never see one of them again.
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Still, amid shouts of ‘God bless your honour — long may you reign!’ and ‘Make room there, boys! clear the road for the masther!’ he reached the threshold of the castle, where stood his mother weeping for joy.
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