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  • "supes" -- the interviews between the French and English armies -- the talk with _Hubert_ (and the hot irons) the delicious acting of _Prince

    Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855

  • That drama has degenerated into a very feeble farce now, and the actors in it would be quite outdone in their travesty by any average corps of "supes" at one of our theatres.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 Various

  • A dozen "supes" filed slowly into the building with brooms and shovels.

    At Good Old Siwash George Fitch 1896

  • In the previous year she had gone with a half dozen other girl "supes" from the Excelsior Studio to "blow in" a quarter looking at the ocean steamers passing in and out.

    The Dust Flower Basil King 1893

  • This consisted of "supes," with banners and bagpipes; and though they were really teamsters in disguise, their hostile appearance and the depressing music of the bagpipes so shocked the English that they did not stop running until they reached Berwick.

    Comic History of England Bill Nye 1873

  • It marked a sharp contrast from the womanly look that Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer and the other "supes" wore so well throughout the '80s.

    columbiatribune.com stories 2009

  • Billy Butcher creates a team to monitor and teach the 'supes' a lesson.

    Film School Rejects 2008

  • Billy Butcher creates a team to monitor and teach the 'supes' a lesson.

    Film School Rejects 2008

  • Billy Butcher creates a team to monitor and teach the 'supes' a lesson.

    Film School Rejects 2008

  • Billy Butcher creates a team to monitor and teach the 'supes' a lesson.

    Film School Rejects 2008

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