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Mr. Beke of the Blacks choose

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[Ind] J. Ayscough Mr. Beke of the Blacks I 183: It was not at all a clever thing to annoy the two young women [...] ‘and all for the sake of a grass widow, whom every one barred; with no looks, and not up to sample in any way’.
at grass widow, n.
[Ind] J. Ayscough Mr. Beke of the Blacks 248: [O]ver there, on the racecourse, he will play no more polo; up there, among the hills that climb upward to Mahableshwar, he will join no more ‘fool-feast,’ poggle-khana, picnics.
at poggle-khana (n.) under poggle, n.
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