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Examples
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"Nor they needn't - they'll give the Basutos the same pepper they gave John Zulu, if Moshesh don't mind his manners:"
THE NUMBERS 2010
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"Not old Moshesh - that's a Bantu who's too smart by half, as we'll find out to our cost one o 'these days."
THE NUMBERS 2010
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The Basuto under Moshesh are equally fond of cultivating the soil.
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The Bakoni and Basuto division contains, in the south, all those tribes which acknowledge Moshesh as their paramount chief.
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This has been doubted, but their songs admit the fact to this day, and they ascribe their having left off the odious practice of entrapping human prey to Moshesh having given them cattle.
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The great chief Moshesh affords an example to his people annually by not only taking the hoe in hand, but working hard with it on certain public occasions.
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Had the people of Kolobeng been in the habit of raising the raw materials of English commerce, the outrage would have been felt in England; or, what is more likely to have been the case, the people would have raised themselves in the scale by barter, and have become, like the Basutos of Moshesh and people of Kuruman, possessed of fire-arms, and the Boers would never have made the attack at all.
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"Nor they needn't - they'll give the Basutos the same pepper they gave John Zulu, if Moshesh don't mind his manners:"
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"Not old Moshesh - that's a Bantu who's too smart by half, as we'll find out to our cost one o 'these days."
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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"Not old Moshesh - that's a Bantu who's too smart by half, as we'll find out to our cost one o 'these days."
Flashman and the angel of the lord Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1995
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