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Hamel, Obeah Man choose

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[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 314: They are innocent: they would have saved this buckra lady.
at buckra-lady (n.) under backra, adj.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 285: ‘Hearkye, blackee!’ shouted the captain.
at blackie (n.) under black, adj.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 238: I am defied by a bullet-headed, woolly-headed, ram-headed, old Negro.
at bullet-headed, adj.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 247: ‘Lord! I would not let him kiss me, if he was a white man; much less since he is a Mulatto.’ [...] ‘Cha! cha!’ replied Drybones; ‘you all run after him as soon as you see him.’.
at cha!, excl.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 35: I will not parley with so base a knave – a cogging, pettyfogging knave.
at cog, v.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 72: Her master need not brag so much of his new friends, who, bad as they looked, (‘fit only for the John-crows,’) still looked better than they were in reality.
at John Crow, n.1
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 3: His mouth [...] was furnished with a set of short but regular teeth, as white as those of Cuffy.
at cuffy, n.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 8: That Negro Drybones – or, as we call him, Nimrod.
at dry-bone(s) (n.) under dry, adj.1
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 333: Pray Garamighty to send him safe home.
at gar, n.1
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 316: Your white man’s country has room for you all, and land and nyam-nyam enough.
at nyam, n.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 87: Quashiba! mistress! are you dead?
at quashiba, n.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man II 231: Quashie does not like to abandon house and furniture, his pigs, his turkies, and his cocks and hens.
at quashie, n.
[UK] Hamel, Obeah Man I 60: This sambo-coloured man was tall and well proportioned.
at sambo, n.1
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