Lexicographical Neighbors of Savey
Literary usage of Savey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. How We Got Into Pekin: A Narrative of the Campaign in China of 1860 by Robert James Leslie M'Ghee (1862)
"Oh, divel a bit, you savey." So the faithful Paddy would discourse his coolies
for hours, eliciting an occasional grunt, not that they z ..."
2. How We Got Into Pekin: A Narrative of the Campaign in China of 1860 by Robert James Leslie M'Ghee (1862)
"It's all very well for you now, you savey, becase you get mate every day for your
dinner, you savey, number one chowchow, you savey, that's becase you're at ..."
3. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1826)
"me tell you dis... if you free, you no idle ; you savey dat ? ... He savey every
ting about you, he love you dearly, he come from England across the sea to ..."
4. The Empire Review (1905)
"Missee savey," he commenced with an aggrieved tone, ... Missee savey, molning
time masta cally money long township. ..."
5. Six Months in the West Indies by Henry Nelson Coleridge (1841)
"(What for you no make quiet your piccaninny,* you great tall ting dere ? ... )
me tell dis'... if you free, you no idle; you savey dat ? ..."
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