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Owen will be joined by his parents and older sister, Sophi, at the national bee, which includes a full week of festivities and plenty of time for sightseeing in the nation’s Capitol.

From Washington Times • May 11, 2015

Nay, there is a Letter of his extant, in which he makes his Boasts that he had laid the Sophi of Persia under Contribution.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph

All foreign courts, even the Czar of Muscovy, the great Sophi, King of Morocco, of Persia; well, he had had missions to them, and been of them and amongst them. 

From William Shakespere, of Stratford-on-Avon His Epitaph Unearthed, and the Author of the Plays run to Ground by Surtees, Scott

Probably it would have been more dangerous to arouse the fears of the "Sophi" and "Magi."

From The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 6. (of 7): Parthia The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations. by Rawlinson, George

The two of 'em ain't done nothin' but argue and row over diseases and imagination and medicines ever since Sophi got here.

From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby