You'd have been married to a French "mounseer" by now, 'and he laughed a little, as if there was something exceedingly funny in the idea. ❋ Mrs. Molesworth (1880)
This yere bear had a man with it, a mounseer, to judge from his tongue. ❋ M. B. Manwell (N/A)
This water is an article of very large consumption in France; our English cooks have no idea to what an extent it is used by the _chefs_ in the land of the "darned mounseer." ❋ Various (N/A)
"I'd fight any mounseer, or Dutchman, or Portuguee as soon as look at him, 'tis on'y natural; but if a mounseer likes to give me twopence for a thing that's worth a penny -- why, I'll say thank 'ee and axe him -- leastways if there's any matey by as knows the lingo -- to buy another." ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
That mounseer chap had divided his dinner with the bear one day; the greedy baste had swallowed his own share, and was watching his master out of them cunning eyes bears has. ❋ M. B. Manwell (N/A)
But, sir, I don't see any call for me to make out I'm a mounseer. ❋ Herbert Strang (N/A)
I'm as positive as I sit here, that when a chap begins to talk French he loses all his English spirit, and feels all over him as like a mounseer as possible. ❋ Various (N/A)
A big lad, standing close to a gentleman on horseback, who was surveying the scene with evident interest, made an ugly face at one of the prisoners, and said, "Well, mounseer, how do you find yourself?" ❋ Arthur Judson Brown (1909)
The frigate is unmanageable at present, and will continue so until they can get some sort of a jury-mast rigged for'ard; so we will fill on the schooner, and make a stretch to windward until we can get into a raking position, then drop down upon mounseer, and see what we can do with him. ❋ Harry Collingwood (1886)
'Ere I takes up a blessed son of a pop-gun what calls hisself anything you care to mention, and turns out to be a blessed mounseer at the end of it! ❋ Robert Louis Stevenson (1872)
"Why, mounseer, you speak English," said one of the sailors. ❋ Bracebridge Hemyng (1871)
"Smart," said Captain Chubb, "for a mounseer;" and he looked at Rodd as he spoke, before tucking his speaking trumpet under his arm and then giving himself a shake like a huge yellow Newfoundland dog to get rid of the superabundant moisture. ❋ George Manville Fenn (1870)
"Eh, mounseer, Russian sauce seems to be sour to a Frenchman ... sets his teeth on edge!" said a wrinkled clerk who was standing behind Pierre, when the Frenchman began to cry. ❋ Leo Tolstoy (1869)
Rumor first brought to Berlin the tidings of the destruction of the great army on the icy plains of Russia; then its remnants, starving, worn, ragged, appeared in the capital; and the street-boys, who not long before had been forced by the French soldiers to clean their boots, now with little generosity -- they were only "street - boys" -- shouted sneeringly, "Say, mounseer, want your boots blacked?" ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)
"I hope he will yet give the mounseer a good shaking," muttered ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
"But sure," he added, in an altered tone, dropping the hand and glancing at the man's uniform, "ye must be a poor-spirited craitur to forsake yer native land an 'become a mounseer." ❋ Unknown (1859)
"No; to my mind it is only a mounseer midshipmite," observed Reuben ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
"Or stay -- the other two youngsters shall perform the office, while mounseer shall fiddle him out of the world while we dance to the tune." ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
There was nothing they would not have done for the "little mounseer," as they called him. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)
