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Examples
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"Hush, my bouchal, hush and listen," and his cheeks were all aglow --
The Red Horizon Patrick MacGill 1926
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"Whisht, ma bouchal!" cried Tim Rooney, laughing at my sorry plight as I picked myself up.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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Misther Gray-ham, why don't ye fire away, ma bouchal?
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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You looked all forlorn up there, ma bouchal, loike Pat's pig whin he shaved it, thinkin 'to git a crop o' wool off av its back.
Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea William Heysham Overend 1874
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"Are ye kilt, Pater, ma black bouchal?" cried Dinny piteously, as he leaped down to the aid of his fellow-servant.
Off to the Wilds Being the Adventures of Two Brothers George Manville Fenn 1870
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Lies soft in the moonlight, _ma bouchal vourneen_:
The Luck of Roaring Camp and Other Tales With Condensed Novels, Spanish and American Legends, and Earlier Papers Bret Harte 1869
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'Erin, _ma bouchal_ you are! first gem of the say! that's what Dan
Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839
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"Jemmy, a bouchal," said Connor, across the ditch to M'Evoy, "are you sleepin '?"
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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"God save you, a bouchal!" said a warm, honest-looking countryman, whom he met driving home his cows in the evening, within a few miles of the town in which he purposed to sleep.
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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Come thin, let us get a lot o 'the neighbors, an' set about it, poor bouchal.
The Poor Scholar Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three William Carleton 1831
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