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sorra - definition and meaning
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But, you see, if all our people knew that same, sorra a bit o 'money would go to the praste's pocket in comparison to what he gets now.
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse Anonymous
Och, but it was a sore time o 'grief whin sorra a mouthful were left for the bit childer and the ould people who were weak before wi' ould age!
Live to be Useful or, The Story of Annie Lee and her Irish Nurse Anonymous
"When the people sees _that_," says the Waiver to himself, "the sorra one will dar 'for to come near me."
Half-Hours with Great Story-Tellers Various
"'Pon my soul it did, thin, -- it makes me happy whin sorra thing else in the wide world will comfort me," replied Pat.
Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue Warren T. Ashton
Faith, it's sorra a ha'porth cud she course or lep these fifteen years.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-21 Various
What with foxes one day, stags the next and hares the next, there's sorra a born thing they wouldn't hunt given there's smell enough in it, 'says the lad.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-02-04 Various
Weary on the English hay, an sorra take the wheat!
Corrymeela 1922
And since he's in no condition to go to his shtate-room an 'unlock the ship's safe, an' sorra wan av me knows the combination, the divil a look will ye have at our papers.
Cappy Ricks Retires 1918
"Well, no more do I, sorra bit," confessed Mrs. McCartey serenely.
Hillsboro People Dorothy Canfield Fisher 1918
"He sorra now!" the little man said to Johnnie Green.
The Tale of Major Monkey Arthur Scott Bailey 1913
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as indicated above, the following definition is found under the Century Dictionary & Cyclopedia entry at sorrow:
March 18, 2014