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- noun Plural form of
Feejeean .
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Examples
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Such was the installation of Bishop Higgins, or, as the Feejeeans insisted upon considering him, Divinity Higgins, over the diocese of the
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The art of preparing arrowroot from it is aboriginal with the Polynesians and Feejeeans.
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After hearing his whole story, I told him I did not believe a word of it; to which he answered, that the main part of it was true, but he might have made some mistakes, as he had been so much in the habit of lying to the Feejeeans, that he hardly now knew when he told the truth, adding, that he had no desire to tell anything but the truth.
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On my asking him if he did not cultivate the ground, he said at once no; he found it much easier to get his living by telling the Feejeeans stories, which he could always make good enough for them; -- these, and the care of his two little boys, and his hens, and his pigs, when he had any, gave him ample employment and plenty of food.
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Feejeeans are very ingenious at canoe-building and carpentry, and, curious enough, the barber is a most important personage, as they take great pains and pride in dressing their hair.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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Thus Sir John Lubbock speaks [213] of certain Feejeeans, who, according to the testimony of Mr. Hunt, [214] have the custom of piously choking their parents under certain circumstances, in order to insure their happiness in a future life.
On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart
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Although the Feejeeans have made considerable progress in several useful arts, they are in many respects the most barbarous and savage race now existing upon the globe.
The Island Home Richard Archer
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They were not such epicures in cannibalism as the inhabitants of the Feejee Islands formerly were, and did not make as much ceremony as the Feejeeans over their feasts of human flesh.
The Land of the Kangaroo Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey through the Great Island Continent Thomas Wallace Knox 1865
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It is a filthy preparation, and only partaken of by the lower classes of Feejeeans.
Catalogue of Economic Plants in the Collection of the U. S. Department of Agriculture William Saunders 1861
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"And ask him," said I, "who she is, for I am persuaded she is of a different race from the Feejeeans."
The Coral Island 1859
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