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  • Why, by it I mean such conduct as is not tatcheno. {31a} When ryes and rawnies {31b} lives together in dingles, without being certificated, I calls such behaviour being tolerably deep in the roving-line, everything savouring of which I am determined not to sanctify.

    The Romany Rye A Sequel to 'Lavengro' George Henry Borrow 1842

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