“Oons, sir! do you say that I am drunk? I say, sir, that I am as sober as a judge.”
Don Quixote in England (1731), Act III, scene xiv
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“I am, sir, a Brother of the Angle.”
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Part I, ch. 1.
The Compleat Angler (1653-1655)
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Standard reply to people proposing changes in the running of Oxford University; quoted in Colin Gordon, Beyond the Looking Glass (1982), p. 37
“Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
June 1784, p. 545
Life of Samuel Johnson (1791), Vol IV
“Thank you, sir, but I am perfectly content being the bride of death.”
Seth Grahame-Smith book Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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“Sir, I am not in your land, but in my own.”
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El Cid's answer to the king when ordered to quit his land; in Chronicle of the Cid, from the Spanish by Robert Southey (1808), Book III, §18, p. 96
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“No, sir. Go to hell sir. It's the best I can do for you sir.”
Jack London book Call of the Wild
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