Citations:-ses

English citations of -ses

• 1883, Mary Dow Brine, Christmas rhymes and new year's chimes, page 74:

  And those "sockses," the feet that wore them / Were warm, and were soft and white, / And restless, like two little footies I know, / From early morning till night.

• 1924, Alan Alexander Milne, When We Were Very Young, Penguin, →ISBN, page 40:

  The Three Foxes[.] Once upon a time there were three little foxes / Who didn't wear stockings, and they didn't wear sockses, / But they all had handkerchiefs to blow their noses, / And they kept their handkerchiefs in cardboard boxes.

• (Can we date this quote?), Mark P Henderson, National Cake Day in Ruritania (Fantastic Books Publishing, →ISBN):

  'What has Rory Redman got in his pocketses?' 'I know what I've got in my pocketses. Someone was damned careless to leave it unattended. But I suppose they had to run […]'}}

• 2014 March 15, Jonathan Albin, Top of Your Game, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:

  For this reason, many who ascribe to their effects are known to roll the dice hidden from the sight of other players, and to keep the dice in dark and musty places, such as dice bags, dice boxes, and – shudder – pocketses.

• 1908, New York City Mission Monthly, page 19:

  I feel awful sorry for her; she lives on the fourth floor in 'my house' and she helps her mother to sew pantses and she looks so skinny and sick, and her mother says like that she will do without the money for the pantses if the […]

• 2012 October 25, Karen Bennett, Dean W. Zimmerman, Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, OUP Oxford, →ISBN, page 73:

  If we help ourselves to a perplural language, we can say that there are three things and there are seven thingses total.10 In fact, we can make our general claim in a language of perplurals: For any two or more things, there are fewer of those things than there are thingses amongst which just those things are found.