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1878, quoted 2001, from a song by James Bland, an African American songwriter for minstrel shows, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny", The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: North America. Garland Publishing. Ellen Koskoff (Ed.). p. 192. Massa and missis have lone gone before me.
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A man said he'd give me five pounds if I'd paint him and his missis and the dog and the cottage.
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Anne took up her embroidery till she was called to the table, and was gossiping with Mrs. Ford about the Lascelles family, when Towser burst suddenly into the room, crying out,—“Come, Missis, bustle about! here comes Master George, bringing in the Duke to breakfast![…]”
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“Home you go!” Miss Kane, nodding, in her white nurse’s dress, stood for a moment—she would catch a breath of air—in the hospital door; “and thank you again for the stockings, you needn’t have bothered”—drew a sharp breath and turning, dismissed Missis Flinders from the hospital, smiling, dismissed her forever from her mind.
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