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Examples
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In Bleak House Charles Dickens created the immortal Mrs Jellyby, who worries about the natives of Borrioboola-Gha while her own children fell into the grate.
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Dor Sho Gha has involuntarily emerged from my mouth numerous times.
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Mrs. Jellyby, all the while, sat smiling at the limited vision that could see anything but Borrioboola – Gha.
Bleak House 2007
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She has been disappointed in Borrioboola – Gha, which turned out a failure in consequence of the king of Boorioboola wanting to sell everybody — who survived the climate — for rum, but she has taken up with the rights of women to sit in Parliament, and Caddy tells me it is a mission involving more correspondence than the old one.
Bleak House 2007
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I was a little curious to know who a mild bald gentleman in spectacles was, who dropped into a vacant chair (there was no top or bottom in particular) after the fish was taken away and seemed passively to submit himself to Borriohoola – Gha but not to be actively interested in that settlement.
Bleak House 2007
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Borrioboola – Gha appeared to me to be one of the pleasantest of oddities.
Bleak House 2007
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Borrioboola – Gha and the natives, and received so many letters that Richard, who sat by her, saw four envelopes in the gravy at once.
Bleak House 2007
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He wondered how she was doing, but he could only hope that Gha-ran had managed to keep her on in his shop.
Wellspring of Chaos Modesitt, L. E. 2004
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It was time for Dickens to wield this weapon when he heard Chadbands pouring forth their oily platitudes and saw Mrs. Jellybys neglecting their own children to clothe the offspring of 'Borrioboola Gha'.
Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies George Henry Blore
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In Lusoga (north coast of Victoria Nyanza) _Wa-_ becomes _ [Gamma] a_ (_Gha_).
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various
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