"Missy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... so Missy Grace, dats Massa Joe's wife, keep me in de house most of de time, to cook and keep de house cleaned up. I milked de cow and worked in de garden too. My massa was good to all he slaves, but Missy Grace ...
— Slave Narratives Vol. XIV. South Carolina, Part 2 • Works Projects Administration
... end? I repeat. Look here, missy. We spar a bit when we meet, you and I; but I'd be sorry to see you go the way you're going. 'Pon my honour I would. You're as pretty a piece of flesh as a man could find on this side of the Atlantic, and what's a sharp tongue but a touch of spice to it? Piquancy, begad, to a ...
— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch
... money—you no ab tick—how I get grog, Massa Cockle? Missy O'Bottom, she tell me, last quarter-day, no pay whole bill, she not half like it; she say you great deceiver, ...
— Olla Podrida • Frederick Marryat
... "No, missy, dars no un been roun' heah for right smart days. It's all safe, an' Jehu an' his ole ooman knows how ter keep mum when Mas'r Anderson says mum; an' so does my peart boy Huey"—who, named for his father, was thus distinguished from him. ...
— His Sombre Rivals • E. P. Roe
... "Missy Alice! Oh! missy Alice! quick, look up, it's me—Poopy," said the girl, raising her head cautiously above the edge ...
— Gascoyne, the Sandal-Wood Trader • R.M. Ballantyne
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