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  • Sinfi's creed did not surprise me: the mixture of guile and simplicity in the Romany race is only understood by the few who know it thoroughly: the race whose profession it is to cheat by fortune-telling, to read the false 'dukkeripen' as being 'good enough for the Gorgios,' believe profoundly in nature's symbols; but her bearing did surprise me.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • You know that --- was the woman who "cleaned out" a man named --- of a very large sum {280} by "dukkeripen" and

    The Gypsies Charles Godfrey Leland 1863

  • Softly, friend; when thou wouldst speak harshly of the dead, remember that thou hast not yet fulfilled thy own dukkeripen!

    Lavengro 2004

  • I have nothing to do with that man's after life -- he fulfilled his dukkeripen.

    George Borrow The Man and His Books Edward Thomas 1897

  • I have nothing to do with that man's after life -- he fulfilled his dukkeripen.

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • Softly, friend; when thou wouldst speak harshly of the dead, remember that thou hast not yet fulfilled thy own dukkeripen!

    George Borrow and His Circle Wherein May Be Found Many Hitherto Unpublished Letters Of Borrow And His Friends Clement King Shorter 1891

  • There's two things as keeps _her_ alive: there's the cuss, as says she's got to beg her bread, and there's the dukkeripen o 'the Golden Hand on

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Winifred's dukkeripen on Snowdon has come true, and it wur me what made it come true.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Nothing could be more striking than the contrast between the illiterate locutions and the eccentric orthography of Fenella's letters and the subtle remarks and speculations upon the symbols of nature. -- the dukkeripen of the woods, the streams, the stars, and the winds.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • Hav'n't you never heer'd o 'the dukkeripen o' the trúshul shinin 'in the sunset sky when the light

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

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