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Examples
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Alf and Harald will recognise the Tellemark 'jente' girls. "
Strife and Peace Fredrika Bremer 1833
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Senor Obama sabe las problemas de la jente de color y la pobre.
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McCain Y Hillary tienen muchos million de dolares y sabe solo de la jente que muy rico.
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Todo la jente dicen, Congratulationes El Presidente Obama!
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Cada tributa_o_ a se dar e Vn año que es vna manta de algodon de q_e_ ay mucha abundançia en esta ysla de diez varas de largo y dos de ancho es rropa de que vsan los naturales p_a_ bestirse delgada asi mismo an de dar dosa_s_. de arroz y vna gallina entiendese lo daran sin pesadunbre porla mucha abundançia q_e_ de todo tienen ay mucha jente, asi se entiende seran alg_o_s muy principales Repartimientos de mucha Renta. en esta ysla ay muchas minas de oro y pte dellas sean Visto por espanoles y dizen que las labran los naturales como en la nueua spaña, las minas de plata y el metal lleua su veta seguida como la plata an hecho dello ensayes y aCude atanta rriqueza q_e_ no lo scriuo porq_e_ no entiendan que me a largo el tpo descubrira la verdad. deste oro Vsan Los naturales y lo mezclan con metal de Cobre tan sutil m_te_. que enganaran alos diestros artifices despaña.
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Perhaps in the crowded prison of Madrid, there were not more than twenty who exhibited the dress which I have attempted to describe above; these were jente de reputacion, tip-top thieves, mostly young fellows, who, though they had no money of their own, were supported in prison by their majas and amigas, females of a certain class, who form friendships with robbers, and whose glory and delight it is to administer to the vanity of these fellows with the wages of their own shame and abasement.
The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842
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Perhaps in the crowded prison of Madrid, there were not more than twenty who exhibited the dress which I have attempted to describe above; these were jente de reputacion, tip-top thieves, mostly young fellows, who, though they had no money of their own, were supported in prison by their majas and amigas, females of a certain class, who form friendships with robbers, and whose glory and delight it is to administer to the vanity of these fellows with the wages of their own shame and abasement.
The Bible in Spain 1712
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Shoda Metrick said: "bueno big esto si ke es feo de verdad siempre le pasa kosas malas a personas admirables y a la jente mala simpre estan en pie las 24 hs del dia loko!
GRANDGOOD 2010
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