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The lines readers remember from English as She Is Spoke, by Pedro Carolino and José da Fonseca.
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It is a noise which to cleave the head.
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This girl have a beauty edge.
It is a noise which to cleave the head.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
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It is a noise which to cleave the head.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
Tell me, it can one to know?
He is valuable his weight’s gold.
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He burns one’s self the brains.
He is valuable his weight’s gold.
He has the word for to laugh.
Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
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Its are some blu stories.
Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
He sin in trouble water.
In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
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He has a good beak.
In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
To build castles in Espagnish.
Cat scalded fear the cold water.
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To build castles in Espagnish.
Cat scalded fear the cold water.
To do the fine spirit.
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Familiar Phrases
This girl have a beauty edge.
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This room is filled of bugs.
This girl have a beauty edge.
It is a noise which to cleave the head.
It is a noise which to cleave the head.
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This girl have a beauty edge.
It is a noise which to cleave the head.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
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It is a noise which to cleave the head.
This wood is fill of thief’s.
Tell me, it can one to know?
He laughs at my nose, he jest by me.
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She do not that to talk and to cackle.
He laughs at my nose, he jest by me.
He has spit in my coat.
He has scratch the face with hers nails.
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He does me some kicks.
He has scratch the face with hers nails.
He burns one’s self the brains.
He burns one’s self the brains.
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He has scratch the face with hers nails.
He burns one’s self the brains.
He is valuable his weight’s gold.
He is valuable his weight’s gold.
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He burns one’s self the brains.
He is valuable his weight’s gold.
He has the word for to laugh.
He do the devil at four.
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He has the word for to laugh.
He do the devil at four.
He make to weep the room.
He make to weep the room.
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He do the devil at four.
He make to weep the room.
He was fighted in duel.
He was wanting to be killed.
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It must never to laugh of the unhappies.
He was wanting to be killed.
I am confused all yours civilities.
I am catched cold in the brain.
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I will not to sleep on street.
I am catched cold in the brain.
I am pinking me with a pin.
I am pinking me with a pin.
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I am catched cold in the brain.
I am pinking me with a pin.
I dead myself in envy to see her.
I dead myself in envy to see her.
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I am pinking me with a pin.
I dead myself in envy to see her.
I take a broth all morning.
Familiar Dialogues
The field has by me a thousand charms.
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You hear the bird’s gurgling?
The field has by me a thousand charms.
Are you hunter? will you go to the hunting in one day this week?
Anecdotes
“Gossip, the blind saw clearer than this that may have two eyes.”
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The neighbour was council him so and was hasten to carry back that sum, in the hope soon to draw out a thousand. But the blind having finded the money, was seized it, having called her neighbour, he told him:
“Gossip, the blind saw clearer than this that may have two eyes.”
A man one’s was presented at a magistrate which had a considerable library. “What you make?” beg him the magistrate. “I do some books,” he was answered. “But any of your books I did not seen its.—I believe it so, was answered the author;
“I had gain, over said the one eyed; why I see you two eyes, and you not look me who one.”
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One eyed was laied against a man which had good eyes that he saw better than him. The party was accepted.
“I had gain, over said the one eyed; why I see you two eyes, and you not look me who one.”
A english lord was in their bed tormented, cruelly of the gout, when was announced him a pretended physician, which had a remedy sure against that illness. “That doctor came in coach or on foot?” was request the lord.
Idiotisms and Proverbs
The necessity don’t know the low.
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The necessity don’t know the low.
Few, few the bird make her nest.
Few, few the bird make her nest.
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The necessity don’t know the low.
Few, few the bird make her nest.
He is not valuable to breat that he eat.
Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
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Its are some blu stories.
Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
He sin in trouble water.
He sin in trouble water.
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Nothing some money, nothing of Swiss.
He sin in trouble water.
A bad arrangement is better than a process.
In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
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He has a good beak.
In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
To build castles in Espagnish.
To build castles in Espagnish.
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In the country of blinds, the one eyed men are kings.
To build castles in Espagnish.
Cat scalded fear the cold water.
Cat scalded fear the cold water.
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To build castles in Espagnish.
Cat scalded fear the cold water.
To do the fine spirit.
With a tongue one go to Roma.
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To do the fine spirit.
With a tongue one go to Roma.
There is not any ruler without a exception.
Take out the live coals with the hand of the cat.
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There is not any ruler without a exception.
Take out the live coals with the hand of the cat.
A horse baared don’t look him the tooth.
To do a wink to some body.
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Take the occasion for the hairs.
To do a wink to some body.
So many go the jar to spring, than at last rest there.
So many go the jar to spring, than at last rest there.
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To do a wink to some body.
So many go the jar to spring, than at last rest there.
He eat untill to can’t more.
He eat untill to can’t more.
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So many go the jar to spring, than at last rest there.
He eat untill to can’t more.
Which like Bertram, love hir dog.
He is not so devil as he is black.
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It want to beat the iron during it is hot.
He is not so devil as he is black.
It is better be single as a bad company.
The stone as roll not heap up not foam.
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It is better be single as a bad company.
The stone as roll not heap up not foam.
They shurt him the doar in face.
He turns as a weath turcocl.
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He has fond the knuckle of the business.
He turns as a weath turcocl.
There is not better sauce who the appetite.
He is beggar as a church rat.
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The pains come at horse and turn one’s self at foot.
He is beggar as a church rat.
So much go the jar to spring that at last it break there.
Friendship of a child is water into a basket.
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Keep the chestnut of the fire with the cat foot.
Friendship of a child is water into a basket.
At some thing the misforte is good.
Burn the politeness.
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At some thing the misforte is good.
Burn the politeness.
Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.
Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.
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At some thing the misforte is good.
Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.
After the paunch comes the dance.
After the paunch comes the dance.
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Tell me whom thou frequent, I will tell you which you are.
After the paunch comes the dance.
Of the hand to mouth, one lose often the soup.
To look for a needle in a hay bundle.
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Of the hand to mouth, one lose often the soup.
To look for a needle in a hay bundle.
To buy cat in pocket.
To craunch the marmoset.
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To look for a needle in a hay bundle.
To craunch the marmoset.
To buy cat in pocket.
To buy cat in pocket.
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To look for a needle in a hay bundle.
To buy cat in pocket.
To be as a fish into the water.
To make paps for the cats.
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To be as a fish into the water.
To make paps for the cats.
To come back at their muttons.
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