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Examples
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Of the 12 missing, 9 are South African, 2 Portugees and one Namibian.
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Portugees with pencil stubs behind their ears and scarred fingers?
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
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A long time ago there was only Portugees an 'Dutch in the Chiny sea, an' they carried on somethin 'awful, fightin' an 'robbin'.
The Pirate Shark Elliott Whitney
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Both of 'em had saved a few thousand dollars, but you couldn't get a cent of it without giving 'em ether, and they'd rather live like Portugees than white men any day, unless they was paid to change.
Cape Cod Stories Joseph Crosby Lincoln 1907
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It is true he has been preaching that sort of gospel among the vicious and ignorant Portugees and half-casts, but it's all talk.
West Wind Drift George Barr McCutcheon 1897
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Portugees told us that two great French ships, homeward bound from the
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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Portugees are cautious in saying how far it is to the Gold-mines; but, I believe, the distance by water is not great; and there is certainly abundance of Gold in the country.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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The French took about 1200_l. _ worth out of their boats last autumn at one Haul, which makes the Portugees hate 'em so.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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It stank abominably, which the Portugees said was only the
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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But the Portugees are not very hard with their Negroes, save up at the Gold-mines, where Mercy is quite unknown.
The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 3 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors... George Augustus Sala 1861
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