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I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean missionary in his cellar against a coming famine; it will be more tolerable for that provident Fejee, I say, in the day of judgment, than for thee, civilized and enlightened gourmand, who nailest geese to the ground and feastest on their bloated livers in thy pate-de-foie-gras.
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It must have been a noble sight to see the feline banquetting on the dainty joints of the _mus_ in the Fejee palace, and WHITTINGTON getting a bag of gold for each victim his follower devoured.
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You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Fejee-man!
Salut au Monde 1900
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They desired to express by that phrase white men, men of European birth and European descent, and had no reference either to the negro, the savage Indians, the Fejee, the Malay, or any other inferior and degraded race, when they spoke of the equality of men.
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Sandwich Islands of an old Fejee man who had been carried away among strangers, but who prayed that he might be carried home and his brains beaten out in peace by his son, according to the custom of those lands.
Authors and Friends Annie Fields 1874
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The Fejee islander might assert his God to be good, but would that make you love him?
Wilfrid Cumbermede George MacDonald 1864
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These theories serve as a row of mirrors hung in a line of historic perspective, reflecting every relevant shape and hue of meditation and faith humanity has known, from the ideal visions of the Athenian sage to the instinctive superstitions of the Fejee savage.
The Destiny of the Soul A Critical History of the Doctrine of a Future Life William Rounseville Alger 1863
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The anecdotes of Queen Christina of Sweden present more clearly the character and degree of civilisation of the people over whom she reigned than any laboured historical effort could have done; and no one would dream of describing a royal banquet amongst the Fejee islanders and omit the cold bishop on the side-table.
Documenting the American South: The Southern Experience in 19-th Century America 1863
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Extemp'ry mammoth turkey-chick fer a Fejee Thanksgivin '.
The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855
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You benighted roamer of Amazonia! you Patagonian! you Fejee-man!
Poems By Walt Whitman Walt Whitman 1855
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