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Examples
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Good … Well, since I see that you are more intent on staring foolishly at me than in studying the road on which your life depends, I suggest that we go down, and you can use the rest of the day changing yourself from a moon struck farangi soldier into an Indian traveller with his wits about him.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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“No, effendi, merely a whim, a little trick, a jest to remind the great farangi soldier that the wild barbarian woman will do what she will do in her own good time … not his.”
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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Quickly Ali Shah explained to the gathering of women that the red-haired farangi had not brought her black bag with her because she was not a nurse.
Call Of The Heart Delamere, Wanda 1982
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Iran wanted no farangi, or foreign, help or involvement he adds, wielding his Farsi, as a tiger bares its fangs, to pre-emptively settle the argument.
NYT > Home Page By MARC TRACY 2011
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Iran wanted no farangi, or foreign, help or involvement he adds, wielding his Farsi, as a tiger bares its fangs, to pre-emptively settle the argument.
NYT > Home Page By MARC TRACY 2011
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The locals tend to strike up conversations with the exotic farangi, asking them where they are off to, and why.
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Besides farangi, the duo from the excellent fivethirtyeight. com were along for the ride.
Chapati Mystery 2008
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With the Da Vinci Code making it’s inexorable progress toward DVD-dom, farangi offers an actual history of Templardom which is rich with detail though surprisingly sympathetic to the hoax.
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With the Da Vinci Code making it’s inexorable progress toward DVD-dom, farangi offers an actual history of Templardom which is rich with detail though surprisingly sympathetic to the hoax.
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“When we’ve scouted this farangi army and seen what’s to be had from them … perhaps from Theodore, too.
Flashman on the March Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 2005
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