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- proper noun A people of
Papua New Guinea . - proper noun The
Papuan language spoken by these people.
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Examples
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I remained, and might have remained, for ages yet to come, the fixed and unaltered image of what I was, when in Mauritania I encountered the potent Amaimon, the damned magician of the den, but for that -- woman's faith, and man's fidelity -- which have made me what I AM!
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 376, June 20, 1829 Various
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"But we are rather overrun with emperors," said Amaimon, doubtfully,
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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"Amaimon sounds well," I observed; "Lucifer, well; Larbason, well; yet they are devils 'additions, the names of fiends: but -- Marian Winwood!"
The Cords of Vanity A Comedy of Shirking James Branch Cabell 1918
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Now spoke Amaimon, in the form of a thick suet-colored worm going upright upon his tail, which shone like the tail of a glowworm.
Jurgen A Comedy of Justice James Branch Cabell 1918
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That same mad fellow of the north, Percy, and he of Wales, that gave Amaimon the bastinado and made Lucifer cuckold, and swore the devil his true liegeman upon the cross of a Welsh hookwhat a plague call you him?
Act II. Scene IV. The First Part of King Henry the Fourth 1914
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Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; barbason, well; yet they are devils additions, the names of fiends: but Cuckold!
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Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils 'additions, the names of fiends: but
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Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils 'additions, the names of fiends.
The Merry Wives of Windsor William Shakespeare 1590
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Amaimon sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils’ additions, the names of fiends: but
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-- Amaimon 265 sounds well; Lucifer, well; Barbason, well; yet they are devils’ additions, the names of fiends: but Cuckold!
The Merry Wives of Windsor The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] William Shakespeare 1590
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