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The angel-fish, however, and the batus or skate appear to pair with one another; for there is a fish called the rhinobatus, with the head and front parts of the skate and the after parts of the rhine or angel-fish, just as though it were made up of both fishes together.
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'And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, and what not?'
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842
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"And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, and what not?"
The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
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'Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio.'
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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"Well, I can conceive that there would be an objection on the part of the cokos and batus that a Romany chi should form an improper acquaintance with a gorgio, but I should think that the batus and cokos could hardly object to the chi's entering into the honourable estate of wedlock with a gorgio."
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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'Yes, brother; I should give a whistle, whereupon all one's cokos and batus, and all my near and distant relations, would leave their fiddling, dukkerin, and horse-dealing, and come flocking about me.
The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842
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"And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, {301} and what not?"
Isopel Berners The History of certain doings in a Staffordshire Dingle, July, 1825 George Henry Borrow 1842
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"And would your breaking the fellow's head quite clear you of all suspicion in the eyes of your batus, cokos, and what not?"
The Romany Rye George Henry Borrow 1842
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