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  • "Dog he stop 'm along house, night-time he walk about," Gogoomy was saying, perforce in beche-de-mer English, because he was talking to others beside his own tribesmen.

    Chapter 22 2010

  • Then, ordering one of the well men to take a squad from the field - force and build a lean-to addition to the hospital, he continued along the run-way, administering medicine and cracking jokes in beche-de-mer English to cheer the sufferers.

    Chapter 1 2010

  • Instead, in beche-de-mer, which was as habitual to him as his own Somo speech, he thought:

    Chapter 15 1917

  • What he did say was in beche-de-mer, and his words were:

    Chapter 14 1917

  • Doubtlessly the first dim white adventurer whimsically called a native woman Mary, and of similar birth must have been many other words in beche de mer.

    Chapter 16 1913

  • Thus, fella, in beche de mer, means all that piecee does and quite

    Chapter 16 1913

  • A Solomon islander cannot say FENCE, so, in beche de mer, it becomes fennis; store is sittore, and box is bokkis.

    Chapter 16 1913

  • Then, ordering one of the well men to take a squad from the field - force and build a lean-to addition to the hospital, he continued along the run-way, administering medicine and cracking jokes in beche-de-mer English to cheer the sufferers.

    Something to Be Done 1911

  • Thus, fella, in beche de mer, means all that piecee does and quite a bit more, and is used continually in every possible connection.

    Chapter 16 1911

  • A Solomon islander cannot say FENCE, so, in beche de mer, it becomes fennis; store is sittore, and box is bokkis.

    Chapter 16 1911

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