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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

"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

"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

"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

'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

"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

'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

"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

"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