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"honest Injin" in every respect and one who would always look on the happy side of life, but for twinges of neuralgia -- "monda" he calls it -- which rack his head and face with pain.
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I also need to make a start on a mini monda - I don't have any yet!
dinos and elephants Katy 2008
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Having long had the pleasure of his acquaintance, I can cordially wish him a never-failing supply of "patter" and tobacco, and surcease of "monda"; and what more can the heart of a blackfellow desire -- save rum?
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“monda”; and what more can the heart of a blackfellow desire — save rum?
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Other names are bohsum, the tutelary fetishes of the Gold Coast; suhman, a term for a private fetish; gree-gree on the Liberian coast; monda in the Gabun country; bian among the cannibal Fang; in the Niger Delta ju-ju -- possibly from the French joujou.i. e. a doll or toy (Kingsley) -- and grou-grou, according to some of the same origin, according to others a native term, but the natives say that it is "a white man's word".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Injin” in every respect and one who would always look on the happy side of life, but for twinges of neuralgia — “monda” he calls it — which rack his head and face with pain.
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'' • monda, nor can I, if I lofc her, regard the Empire of the whole world were it offered
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