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								Bombardo (Lyons), without a plank to float upon, I should feel no fear; for if I carried the precious stone, it would bring me safe to shore: the bar lachi has power, brother. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								Brother, I trust in the bar lachi, like the Calore of old: were I in the midst of the gulph of The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								Gabine (French) and of the jara canallis (revenue officers) have hissed about my ears without injuring me, for I carried the bar lachi. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								-- Brother, I am fifty years old, and you see me standing before you in life and strength; how could that be unless the bar lachi had power? The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								Egypt; and when I arose in the morning I took the bar lachi from my bosom, and scraping it with a knife, swallowed some of the dust in aguardiente, as I am in the habit of doing when I have made up my mind; and I said to myself, I am wanted on the frontiers of The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								-- I have no fears myself, brother; the dark night is the same to me as the fair day, and the wild carrascal as the market - place or the chardy (fair); I have got the bar lachi in my bosom, the precious stone to which sticks the needle. The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842 
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								Then, in a lower tone, she said, 'Let me get away, and I'll give you a bit of the _bar lachi_, that will make every woman fall in love with you!' Carmen Prosper M��rim��e 1836 
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								Bombardo (Lyons), without a plank to float upon, I should feel no fear; for if I carried the precious stone, it would bring me safe to shore: the bar lachi has power, brother. The Bible in Spain 1712 
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								Brother, I am fifty years old, and you see me standing before you in life and strength; how could that be unless the bar lachi had power? The Bible in Spain 1712 
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								Brother, I trust in the bar lachi, like the Calore of old: were I in the midst of the gulph of The Bible in Spain 1712 
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