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Examples
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I went to the medicine-man, what you call missionary, and had large talk about the bad water and the payment that should be mine.
The White Man's Way 2010
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Why, my dear sirs, you are as remote from the intellectual life of the twentieth century as an Indian medicine-man making incantation in the primeval forest ten thousand years ago. '
Chapter 1: My Eagle 2010
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I went to the medicine-man, what you call missionary, and had large talk about the bad water and the payment that should be mine.
THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010
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"You won't make me sit up," Hare-Lip boasted to the would-be medicine-man.
Page 4 2010
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She brings him water and a putrid chunk of meat and after a journey takes him to her village where he collapses in front of the devil-devil house and later meets Ngurn, the medicine-man.
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They've successfully used the IRS's sweepingly liberal interpretations of medical expenses to deduct money spent for air conditioners, swimming pools, hot tubs, Indian medicine-man consultations, sex therapy, diet dinners and home remodeling. 5.
Deduction Redux 2009
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Like a political medicine-man he has succeeded as a compelling seller of hope, better than the best infomercial charlatan.
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He was a great doctor among these people, their medicine-man, and he had a very philosophical and inventive mind, and the idea of curing Nunez of his peculiarities appealed to him.
The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006
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Pocahontas; a medicine-man and priest of the Indians (very well played by Palmer), capable of every treason, stratagem, and crime, and bent upon the torture and death of the English prisoner; — these, with the accidents of the wilderness, the war-dances and cries (which Gumbo had learned to mimic very accurately from the red people at home), and the arrival of the
The Virginians 2006
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Then Twemlow was sent, with an escort of chiefs, to the land of the Houlas, as a medicine-man, to win Queen Mabonga for the great King Golo.
Springhaven Richard Doddridge 2004
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