marsa

Like "marsa-" `profane, unholy' marsahh-/ marsanu `to make unholy'.

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And so on to my inn, where Bandy Jim, still industriously polishing boots on the sidewalk, ducked his white head with a joyous "Howdy, marsa!" and I felt as if an old friend was welcoming me home.

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"'Yes, marsa,' says I." Well, de nex 'mawnin' Marse John had his black hoss saddled, an 'I held de stir'up fur him to git on, an' he rode ober to de Barbour plantation an 'didn't come back till plumb black night.

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But you oughter seen ole marsa lookin 'for de udder leg ob dat goose!

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You see, marsa, we got two kinds in de pond, an 'we was a little hurried to-day, so Mammy Jane cooked dis one 'cause I cotched it fust.'

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We elbowed our way through the _Báb-el-Sok_, or Gate of the Market-place, into the city, and found ourselves in a long, narrow, straight street, dropping down to the _marsa_, or harbour.

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My marsa had three or four hundred slaves, himself.

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"Mohnen, marsa," the negro returned politely, and then looked at me with round-eyed astonishment.

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I noes wen de war broke out marse had a store and den marsa took me to his wife's kinfolks down in de country till freedom war declared den my stepfather come an 'got me.

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I put on de ham an 'some mo' dishes, an 'marsa says, lookin' up:

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