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  • a piccaninny is born, the first request is -- "You put 'em (or make 'em) name belonga that fella!"

    Confessions of a Beachcomber 1887

  • When a piccaninny is born, the first request is — “You put ’em (or make ’em) name belonga that fella!”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • In due time his marital distresses came to the ears of his sympathetic father, and Old Billy — never on the side of the angels, for has he not had three wives? — forthwith made a milgar and put it into a very deep hole in the creek, so that the wilful females who were “too flash belonga Charley” might have something else to think about for a few days.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Nelly, his third wife, tore her hair out by the roots in double handfuls and danced upon it, Tom calmly observed, “That fella make fool belonga himself!”

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • He say quiet — ‘Hassan, my boy, you hab something belonga me.’

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • Dorphy [Adolphus] carn mek too much now — one sheer belonga him, Mulai boy two sheers.

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • I was inclined to smile when he said, “Might be hegg belonga scrub hen sit down!”

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • In tones of deep conviction, which permit of no manner of doubt, she tells me that AM-AN-EE caused the death of her infant — “brother belonga Jimmy.”

    My Tropic Isle 2003

  • Yellowby, panting and sweating, gasped as he fell flat on the sand — “No good you fella corrobboree like that fella, belonga me fella.”

    The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

  • That fella mammy belonga 'nother fella altogether.

    Tropic Days 1887

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