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Examples
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The head is esteemed the most powerful devil-devil on Malaita, and to the possession of it is ascribed all of Mauki's greatness.
MAUKI 2010
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Ay, and he had heard of one white man whose particular devil-devil was so powerful that he could take out all his teeth and put them back at will.
MAUKI 2010
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Those of our priests that yet lived we killed because they could not overcome the devil-devil.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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Telling Binu Charley to remove the ear-rings, and directing the Poonga-Poonga men to carry out the old fire-tender, Sheldon cleared the devil-devil house and set fire to it.
Chapter 25 2010
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Some time he made kanaka plenty cross along him and kanaka want 'm kill m, kanaka he think devil-devil and kanaka he hear that fella mate sing out, Yah!
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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"The six men who were put ashore were the first to catch the devil-devil the skippers sent back after us."
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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It was one of Koho's tambos, given him by the devil-devil doctors when he was born, that never was his flesh to come in contact with the flesh of a white man.
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Then the skippers said that it was all very well, but just to show us that they did not forget us, they would send a devil-devil that we would never forget and that we would always remember any time we might feel like harming a white man.
YAH! YAH! YAH! 2010
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Here, you, Adamu Adam, give this devil-devil a wash.
Chapter 11 2010
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Ancient and withered, blackened by many years of the smoke of the devil-devil house, nevertheless the shrunken, mummy-like face was unmistakably Chinese.
Chapter 25 2010
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