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Like the chiefs of Porto Novo, the despot of Dahome, the rulers of many Nigerian tribes, and even the Fernandian "Bube," these potentates may not look at the sea nor at the river.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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Yet I recall the words of my step-father when he referred to the television as "The Bube Tube".
Uh-oh Roger Sutton 2007
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Es mag ja vorkommen dass ein Bube wenn er sein Palmol verkauft hat, sich ein oder zweimal im Jahre mit Rum ein Rauschlein antrinkt.
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Der Handelsrum welcher wie ich mich ofters uberzeugt zwar recht verwassert aber keineswegs abstossend schlecht schmeckt, ist den Bube gewohnlich nur eine Delikatesse welche mit Andacht schluckweise genossen wird.
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Ich bin uberzeugt dass mancher jener Herren die in Wort und Schrift so heftig gegen die Alkolismus der Neger zetern in ihren Studenten-jahren allein mehr geistige Getranke genossen haben als zehn Bube wahrend ihres ganzen Lebens.
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“Bube,” these potentates may not look at the sea nor at the river.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
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‘Humanitatsduselei’ bezeichnet, so ist es den Bube gegenuber wohl mehr als zwecklos.
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Thus, in continuing the game by _addition_, on the numeral ace would be placed an eight, on the _Bube_ (knave) would be placed a ten; because in the former case one and seven make eight, in the latter, eleven
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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(_Bube_) is placed under a queen; the double of twelve being twenty-four, _which is eleven in excess of thirteen_.
Lady Cadogan's Illustrated Games of Solitaire or Patience New Revised Edition, including American Games Adelaide Cadogan
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For in his sermon, delivered Sunday in Bugenhagen's pulpit, and in the presence of Melanchthon and the other professors, John Curio had spoken of Flacius as "the rascal and knave (_Schalk und Bube_)," and even referred to the Lower Saxon delegates in unfriendly terms.
Historical Introductions to the Symbolical Books of the Evangelical Lutheran Church 1894
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