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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
belah .
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Examples
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Just as if the House passed the two billa separately.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”? 2010
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Just as if the House passed the two billa separately.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Does Marshall Field v. Clark Preclude a Challenge to “Deem and Pass”? 2010
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In my bedroom except for me, one could find a laptop lying in a corner, a modem to put life in it, a mattress, couple of suitcases mounted on with my books and dvds and an overflowing cupboard......it leaves enough space to play 'tikkar billa' a game indian kid girls play with seven boxes drawn on the ground and a flat stone.
Archive 2007-12-01 bhags 2007
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In my bedroom except for me, one could find a laptop lying in a corner, a modem to put life in it, a mattress, couple of suitcases mounted on with my books and dvds and an overflowing cupboard......it leaves enough space to play 'tikkar billa' a game indian kid girls play with seven boxes drawn on the ground and a flat stone.
Grinderless in my kitchen bhags 2007
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He said, you dunno ... you can go in there, get your medicina, see el doctor and they send you a billa!!
Immigrants 2006
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Arg wu sentafinticate nar dunderford bida menti kosticated interserd thorphilliate stinded yilla billa zay wentora yate paravillintiniay paravillintiniaaaaaaayyy.
super-suzan Diary Entry super-suzan 2006
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These requests were framed as petitions (or billa, from which derives the modern bill) which, when supported by the lords and approved by the king, became statuteslaws enacted by the legislative branch.
1347-55 2001
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All letters written to his Imperial Majesty, are begun with the praise of God, and with the acknowledgment, (in opposition to idolatry,) that there is neither beginning nor power but what proceeds from God, the eternal God, (_La hule û la kûa ela billa, Allah el adeem_.) 384
An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny
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Instead of this, the Hollanders have been in use to pay to the king 700 or 800 dollars at once for the freedom of a ship's loading, to clear them of this troublesome _billa-billian_.
A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 Robert Kerr 1784
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He is to find Jerusalem guilty of many heinous crimes here enumerated in a long bill of indictment, and it is billa vera -- a true bill; so he writes upon it whose judgment we are sure is according to truth.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi) 1721
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