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  • The whole South, sah, is full of sodjers, er-gittin 'ready to whup the Yanks t'uther side of nex' week.

    Hagar's Daughter: A Story of Southern Caste Prejudice Pauline Elizabeth 1902

  • For check they use the word sah; and for checkmate, mat or mati.

    The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795

  • And he brought up Hadas'sah, that is, Esther, his uncle's daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mor'decai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

    Esther 2. 1999

  • Fá'ilátun (- U --), and is called sahíhah (perfect) because it consists of the normal third foot.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • They would rage around just outside the throwing-distance of the whip, while Lip-lip devoured the meat and Mit-sah protected him.

    The Covenant 2010

  • A second and smaller sled was driven by Mit-sah, and to this was harnessed

    The Covenant 2010

  • Mit-sah, alone, gathering firewood in the forest, encountered the boy that had been bitten.

    The Covenant 2010

  • At first he had been prone to turn upon his pursuers, jealous of his dignity and wrathful; but at such times Mit-sah would throw the stinging lash of the thirty-foot cariboo-gut whip into his face and compel him to turn tail and run on.

    The Covenant 2010

  • In their presence Mit-sah would give him meat and would give it to him only.

    The Covenant 2010

  • Then he realised that this was Mit-sah, one of his own particular gods, who was being maltreated.

    The Covenant 2010

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