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Mbia, who was a bit of a wag, laughingly exclaimed in broken English, “Oh, Kebrabasa good, very good; no let shippee up to Sekeletu, too muchee work, cuttee woodyee, cuttee woodyee: Kebrabasa good.”
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004
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It was in 1890 that he executed his famous business coup: he brought up the suggestion that all nails used in nailing up the boxes in which nails are shipped are the property of the shippee, a proposal which became a statute, was approved by
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"This bad shippee, this slave shippee," the chief he say.
In the South Seas Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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English, "Oh, Kebrabasa good, very good; no let shippee up to Sekeletu, too muchee work, cuttee woodyee, cuttee woodyee: Kebrabasa good."
A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864 David Livingstone 1843
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all nails used in nailing up the boxes in which nails are shipped are the property of the shippee_, a proposal which became a statute, was approved by Chief Justice Fossile, and saved Roger Button and Company, Wholesale Hardware, more than _six hundred nails every year_.
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_all nails used in nailing up the boxes in which nails are shipped are the property of the shippee_, a proposal which became a statute, was approved by Chief Justice Fossile, and saved Roger Button and Company, Wholesale Hardware, more than _six hundred nails every year_.
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Calabooza, startled us by announcing, 'Ah, my boy -- shippee you, harree -- maky sail!' in other words, the Julia was off, "and had taken her stores of old biscuit with her: so the next morning the inmates of the Calabooza were without rations.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 Various
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