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Percy Blake; or, The Young Rifleman choose

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[UK] M. Rafter Percy Blake III 219: They would salute me with a volley of oaths and imprecations, exclaiming, ‘Feringhee Banchoot! Teereemaukachoot!’ and other equally brutal and offensive terms.
at banchoot, n.
[UK] M. Rafter Percy Blake 249: As I [...] never abused or ill-treated them, and always gave them cherry-merry when they attended my hunting-parties, they looked upon me as one of a superior species to the ordinary run of my countrymen.
at cherry-merry, n.
[UK] M. Rafter Percy Blake III 249: ‘Talk, man, talk is the thing to drive sense into a fellow’s noddle; learn Telinga and Malabars, and talk with the Jungle-wallahs; them’s the fellows.’.
at jungle-wallah (n.) under jungle, n.
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