Often used in anger

Usage examples of sirrah.

Well, let me tell you, sirrah, that now deceased deformity was none other than Stromo Sfondrati-Piccolomini.

I will aver, sirrah, that though he is stupid and malformed, my apprentice is capable of carrying great burdens and suffering much deprivation as well, docilely and without excessive complaint.

I have been watching you, sirrah, watching you carefully, and it is my firm conviction that you have, very recently in fact, taken liberties with my wife.

I understand it, the individuals now present who will actually participate in this enterprise consist solely of myself, my apprentice, Sirrah Greyboar and his agent.

Tell him, sirrah, that I will enter no lad as squire of the body without first testing an he be fit at arms to hold that place.

Then, Musco, take this letter, and deliver it unto Lorenzo: but, sirrah, on your life take you no knowledge I have opened it.

Signior Matheo is gone to salute his mistress, sirrah, now thou shalt hear some of his verses, for he never comes hither without some shreds of poetry: Come, Signior Stephano.

Well, sirrah, you Holofernes: by my hand, I will pink thy flesh full of holes with my rapier for this, I will, by this good heaven: nay, let him come, let him come, gentlemen, by the body of St.

Conceit, fetch me a couple of torches, sirrah, I may see the conceit: quickly!

Tis well I found the key, sirrah, for my lady wants you gone, and it must be now, whilst her brother is in the town hiring his mercenaries.

For look you, sirrahs and madame, who was that septuagenarian thus timely squashed?

For know, sirrahs and madame, that at the prime of his career, Stromo injured himself in a demonstration of the smithing art before a lecture hall full of students.

Go, speed thine office quickly, sirrah, for in that consists thy mercy--ten byzants if thou dealest on him at one blow.

At the same time, they heard Richard speak to some one within: --"Go, speed thine office quickly, sirrah, for in that consists thy mercy--ten byzants if thou dealest on him at one blow.

FOOL (taking the plunge) Why, sirrah, why may a caudled fillhorse be deemed the brother to a hiren candle in the night?