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Examples
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Little Shobo is quite a baby, and runs in the sunshine, like his little sister, without clothes.
The Seven Little Sisters Who Live on the Round Ball That Floats in the Air 1888
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This is my book in Japanese, just published by Tosui Shobo.
IsThatLegal? 2004
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The oxen were terribly fatigued and thirsty; and on the morning of the fourth day, Shobo, after professing ignorance of every thing, vanished altogether.
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It was, without exception, the most uninviting prospect I ever beheld; and, to make matters worse, our guide Shobo wandered on the second day.
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We coaxed him on at night, but he went to all points of the compass on the trails of elephants which had been here in the rainy season, and then would sit down in the path, and in his broken Sichuana say, “No water, all country only; Shobo sleeps; he breaks down; country only;” and then coolly curl himself up and go to sleep.
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Shobo gave us no hope of water in less than a month.
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Shobo had found his way to the Bayeiye, and appeared, when we came up to the river, at the head of a party; and, as he wished to show his importance before his friends, he walked up boldly and commanded our whole cavalcade to stop, and to bring forth fire and tobacco, while he coolly sat down and smoked his pipe.
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It was such an inimitably natural way of showing off, that we all stopped to admire the acting, and, though he had left us previously in the lurch, we all liked Shobo, a fine specimen of that wonderful people, the Bushmen.
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One of these Bushmen, named Shobo, consented to be our guide over the waste between these springs and the country of Sebituane.
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See Takushiro Hattori, Dai-Toa Senso Zenshi (Complete History of the Greater East Asia War), 4 vols, (Tokyo: Masu Shobo, 1953), pp. 345–349 and 362.
DAY OF DECEIT ROBERT B. STINNETT 2001
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