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"bulto" -- valuable article -- or some refractory fellow that the captain was desired to watch well on the voyage.
Ran Away to Sea Mayne Reid 1850
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Then the guy from Zacatecas stomps the dried chilis down into the bulto to fill it tight like you see it in the Mercado seco.
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Siempre vaya V.M. entendiendo las mercedes que recibe de su mano, para que vaya creciendo lo que le ama, y dexese de andar mirando en delgadezas de su miseria, que á bulto se nos representan á todos hartas, en especial á mi.
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Mas por allí un bulto negro But a dark shadow appears, se aproxima ..., y a mi ver and in my opinion es el bulto una mujer. the shape is that of a woman.
Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855
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En primer In the foreground, conspicuously set término, aislados y de bulto, apart, are the tombs of Don Gonzalo los sepulcros de don Gonzalo de de Ulloa, Doña Inés and don Luis
Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855
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"First, Captain, because I have carried many a _bulto_ of cochineal and many a bale of smuggled tobacco over it; ay, and upon nights when my eyes were of as little service to me as they are at present."
The Rifle Rangers Mayne Reid 1850
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She was a strange creature, Catalina de Cruces -- one who had shown proofs of a rare spirit -- one not to be bought and sold like a _bulto_ of goods.
The White Chief A Legend of Northern Mexico Mayne Reid 1850
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