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Albert she knew, and did not care for him; but Netty must be proud and "sarcy," and would turn up her nose at everything she saw and heard.

The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

Eula's beautiful face once more, yet recoiling in imagination from the "sarcy" black negro, who accompanied her.

The Planter's Northern Bride 1854

I found the protagonist witty and with a lovely sarcy bite.

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What our sarcy anonymous Beebophile seems to be overlooking is the sheer alacrity with which the BBC has carried this story.

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She didn't say a word at fust, seemed ruther took by surprise, and then, all of a sudding, she turned her head and looked up inter my face as sarcy as ye ever see anything, and says she, 'Do yeou think I'd ever merry a man with sech a horrid name as Mummychog?'

Adèle Dubois A Story of the Lovely Miramichi Valley in New Brunswick Mrs. William T. Savage

'Keep out of their way, ma'am,' said the _linkister_ to a lady, 'for when they come racing about here with their guns, they gits powerful sarcy.'

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

“Yes, hang the sarcy dogs! and they took and tell'd me that they'd take and flow clean up to my front door, and make me go out and in in a boat.”

The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe Stowe, Charles Edward 1889

'Top one littel minnit, Alphonse break him sarcy head;' and out he dashed to carry his threat into execution.

A Christmas Cake in Four Quarters Mary Anne 1871

'Well, p'leaceman, I don't mean to be sarcy: but seein' as all my pore dear 'usband's kith and kin o' the name o 'Goodjohn was buried in Llanbeblig churchyard, p'raps you'll be kind enough to let me go there sometimes, an' p'raps be buried there when my time comes. '

Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

I'm kicking a set o 'sarcy Britishers out o' my ship.

The Black Bar George Manville Fenn 1870