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These kind of promises were among the few which I knew him to keep: and as I loved boath my skinn and my boans, I carried the noat, and of cors said nothink.
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I need to find the specific reference for this, but I remember reading some or another anthropologist that there is no “post-contact” society and I think that was defined as any inter-civilizational contact, not just with Europeans where lighter skinn is not fundamentally associated with power, beauty and privilege.
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One fell with an appalling bump on the deck of the sloop hard by the wheel, a man in a red coat, bear-skinn'd and gaitered.
The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900
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On the shingle - bank the bear-skinn'd sentinel showed black against white waters.
The Gentleman A Romance of the Sea Alfred Ollivant 1900
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Or red-skinnd warriors pass the challenge round; 30
H. W. L. by John Nichol Edmund Clarence Stedman 1895
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The sleek-skinnd mothers of the sharphornd herds
From "The Earthly Paradise." II. Atalanta's Victory by William Morris Edmund Clarence Stedman 1895
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He sat up, proppdwas much wastedhad lain a long time quiet in one position (not for days only but weeks,) a bloodless, brown-skinnd face, with eyes full of determinationbelongd to a New York regiment.
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A dark-skinnd, quaint young fellow, with strong Southern idiom; no education.
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They are as big as a small trout, Rather slenderer and ye skinn full of spotts, some Red Like the finns of a Perch and the jnside flesh Looks as Red as any salmon if they are in season; their taste is very Rich and fatt tho 'not so strong or Clogging as the Lamprys are, but its as fatt and Rich a food.
Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary 1888
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He sat up, propp'd -- was much wasted -- had lain a long time quiet in one position, (not for days only, but weeks,) -- a bloodless, brown-skinn'd face, with eyes full of determination -- belong'd to a New York regiment.
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