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Examples
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"When this question of the silver arose, Captain Mitchell naturally was very warmly of the opinion that his Capataz was the only man fit for the trust.
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"When this question of the silver arose, Captain Mitchell naturally was very warmly of the opinion that his Capataz was the only man fit for the trust.
Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Joseph Conrad 1890
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I told the Capataz to take the boundary rider off that beat, without telling him why, and then the Capataz and I patrolled the fence night after night for a week, during which it was never cut.
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Decoud recognized the ring of genuine determination in the nervous murmurs, the vindictive excitement of the famous Capataz.
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The Capataz said nothing of them; he only told me that the telegraphist of the Cable Company was walking on the Plaza, bareheaded, looking out for me.
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A heavy sense of discomfiture crushed him: the loss of the silver, the death of Nostromo, which was really quite a blow to his sensibilities, because he had become attached to his Capataz as people get attached to their inferiors from love of ease and almost unconscious gratitude.
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Capataz that, to begin with, he personally ran no great risk.
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Capataz was the only man in the town who had seen Hernandez eye to eye.
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But Decoud assured him lightly that he did not mean to take to the boat till the very last moment, and that then he meant the Capataz to come along, too.
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He motioned the Capataz indoors with his extended arm.
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