What is "messers"

Usage examples of "messers".

I want you messers to pay particular attention to perfecting movement from battalion to company columns and from column into line-of-battle in any particular direction.

Certainly the other Messers wouldn't accept him socially there, a stranger of common birth.

Especial the Messers, they was sweatin' happy to see us, but commonfolk, too.

And perhaps as many again, among the retainers of the Messers in town, but they are not organized.

I tell you, in the years to come, rich Messers who're safe and warm in bed tonight will curse the fact that they weren't here, and each will know that they're not as good a man as you.

So you can obey me or kill me, Messers, because I'll die where I stand rather than fail to do my duty, for the Spirit of Man and for the army the Spirit has called me to lead.

And if that's all, Messers, I suggest those of us who can get some rest and the remainder attend to business.

One morning we casually mentioned to one of Ehcm that we were thinking of wintering somewhere on the Atlantic seaboard, and al most instantly found ourselves being whisked off to the western end of the attenuated settlement to a little, semi isolated community called Messers Cove.

Even at first glance Messers seemed like everything an outport should be, and nothing it should not be.

Along the shoreline of Grandy Island - which dominates the archipelago as an anchored battleship dominates a fleet of lesser craft - lay the hamlets of Messers Cove, Muddy Hole, Firby Cove, Sam ways, The Harbour, and The Reach.

Sitting as motionless upon a lip of granite as if he were an extension of the rock was a man whose lean, attenuated figure and hawk-nosed profile belonged to the patriarch of Messers, Uncle Arthur Pink.

The possibility that they might come back again was intensely exciting and con tributed something to my decision to make our home in Messers Cove.

Claire and I were in our kitchen, reading, when Onie Stickland came quietly through the door to tell us that whales were spouting just off Messers Head.

Oddly, his favourite fishing place seemed to be the restricted waters of Messers Cove.

It was on one such occasion, when only a single seiner was present, that Uncle Art and I stood on Messers Head and watched the whales demonstrate the superiority of their fishing tech niques.