Most of these latter are not good enough scholars to understand the chants, even if they can talk a little native, which is just as well, when oratorios of this kind are to be heard every evening among the “rau” roofed huts: “Big-Nose who lives in the white house has got a new suit of clothes.”
— from In the Strange South Seas by Beatrice Grimshaw
Sometimes persons can know one another a long time and be together a lot and not get engaged,” she teased.
— from Molly Brown of Kentucky by Nell Speed
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