She made a whole turn of the room in studying up the Italian sentence with which she assailed him: "Perdoni, Maschera; ma COSA ha detto?
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
"Ya, das iss die COSA, sabe!
"The Missourian"
Eugene P. (Eugene Percy) Lyle
The black waiters carried the science of "taking things easy" to a rare perfection; they were thoroughly polite, and even kindly in manner, and never dreamed of objecting to any practicable order, but-as for carrying it out within any specified time-altra COSA.
"Border and Bastille"
George A. Lawrence