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The Dutch settlers, moreover (who are called "Boors"), are dissatisfied with English rule, and have withdrawn into the interior, and there formed little governments of their own.
The Youth's Companion Volume LII, Number 11, Thursday, March 13, 1879 Various
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1585c John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-86) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Gianibelli stood in the 'Boors' Sconce 'on the edge of the river.
History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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As old Ben asked: "[W]hy should the Palatine Boors [Germans] be suffered to swarm into our Settlements, and by herding together establish their Language and Manners to the Exclusion of ours?"
Divisions on Immigration, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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'So, at the behest of that within you, yes, you did climb naked down a wall of forty Boors - aye, and back up.
The Gates of Noon Rohan, Michael Scott, 1951- 1992
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Boors and _bakémono_ are shut out at the Hakoné barrier.
The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)
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Although I am for raising the Characters in Pastoral somewhat above the degree of Boors and Clowns; yet no one is more for retaining the
A Full Enquiry into the Nature of the Pastoral (1717) Thomas Purney
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