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Examples

  • After all, you know, you are still classed as a chechaquo.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • "The poor, ornery chechaquo," murmured Hootchinoo Bill, as they watched the sorrowing Swede disappear up the trail.

    TOO MUCH GOLD 2010

  • I'm just comin 'back from recordin' so as to see no blamed chechaquo jumps my claim.

    THE STAMPEDE TO SQUAW CREEK 2010

  • "Say, Bill, I've got a chechaquo on the string for a sack of flour," Mitchell announced jubilantly.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • No one had bet on Smoke, who, despite his several known exploits, was still accounted a chechaquo with much to learn.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • In the end, -- and even Bidwell retained no more than hazy recollections of how the night terminated, -- a bill of sale was drawn up, wherein Bill Rader and Charles Mitchell yielded up all right and title to the claim known as 24 ELDORADO, the same being the name the creek had received from some optimistic chechaquo.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • "It's a thousand miles, I'm sayin 'an' most of the trail unbroke, but I bet any chechaquo -- anything he wants -- that Daylight makes Dyea in thirty days."

    Chapter III 2010

  • "You damn chechaquo," was what he said, but in the saying of it was admiration.

    THE RACE FOR NUMBER ONE 2010

  • "The poor, ornery chechaquo," murmured Hootchinoo Bill, as they watched the sorrowing Swede disappear up the trail.

    Too Much Gold 2010

  • They jeered and scoffed at everything, and insulted every chechaquo they met along the way.

    Too Much Gold 2010

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