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Each chief sends away by night, and has a pumpkin, a mealie-cob, and a stick of
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He adds, however, that he does not care one brass farthing -- his actual expression, Mr. Somers, is 'one grain of corn on a mealie-cob' -- about his or anybody else's life, which from all I have heard of his proceedings I can well believe to be true.
Allan and the Holy Flower Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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"Yes," pursued the farmer, buttering another mealie-cob, and commencing to eat it with infinite gusto, "you see, the Cape Dutchmen, although as fine a set of men as ever lived, are just a _little_ too contented and slow; on the other hand, young sir, you English are much too reckless and fast --"
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He smiled blandly over the edge of his mealie-cob.
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a mealie-cob with grains of corn, for in all this country there was no doctoress or diviner like to her.
Swallow: a tale of the great trek Henry Rider Haggard 1890
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