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  • Baas is one of the toughest drive blockers in the game, using his strength and aggressive play to dominate the interior of the front wall.

    USATODAY.com 2005

  • At one time I worked in the flower garden and the conservatory with one of the Codman boys whom I called Baas, as he was my elder and my superior in the business of raising plants, shrubs and flowers for market.

    My Friends at Brook Farm John Van Der Zee Sears

  • Van der Stel, the thin Afrikaner who spoke of "Kaffirs" and expected blacks to call him "Baas" - but who also had genuine respect for the Zulu scouts, and always listened to their advice.

    I Don’t Understand ? Jack Varnell 2010

  • "He said this in English, Baas, which as you know I can understand quite well, after which I was sure that I had better leave him alone.

    She and Allan Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • Nello dreamed of other things in the future than of tilling the little rood of earth, and living under the wattle roof, and being called Baas by neighbors, a little poorer or a little less poor than himself.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • "I should go to my grave quite content if I thought, Nello, that when thou growest a man thou couldst own this hut and the little plat of ground and labor for thyself and be called Baas by thy neighbors," said the old man Jehan many an hour from his bed.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • When he refused the extortionate terms the Baas retaliated with a Dutch note, dated the 30th day of June, 1913, which ordered him to "betake himself from the farm of the undersigned, by sunset of the same day, failing which his stock would be seized and impounded, and himself handed over to the authorities for trespassing on the farm."

    Chapter IV Solomon Tshekisho 1916

  • Bad as you are, the Baas is your Baas for ever and ever, and what he wants to do with you he will do.

    The Judgment House Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Bad as you are, the Baas is your Baas for ever and ever, and what he wants to do with you he will do.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "I should go to my grave quite content if I thought, Nello, that when thou growest a man thou couldst own this hut and the little plot of ground, and labor for thyself, and be called Baas by thy neighbors," said the old man Jehan many an hour from his bed.

    A Dog of Flanders: a Christmas Story 1891

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