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These in some places seemed actually to overhang the savage-looking pass, or "poort," through which the waggons had to struggle in the very bed of the stream.
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If your argument is giving money to the poort will stimulate the economy because the poor will become healthier and more productive, that has some logic to it.
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You can just imagine what it must have been like for those poort women who were just trying to earn enough money to have a place to sleep at night and ended up murdered for their pains.
Archive 2007-12-01 Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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You can just imagine what it must have been like for those poort women who were just trying to earn enough money to have a place to sleep at night and ended up murdered for their pains.
Macabre London Elizabeth Kerri Mahon 2007
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Will hung up in the smoak house the poort of our first
Ferry Hill Plantation journal : January 4, 1838-January 15, 1839, 1961
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Komati poort, the frontier railway station already mentioned, is dreaded as a still worse death-trap than even Delagoa Bay, where it is very unsafe, say, from December to end of
Origin of the Anglo-Boer War Revealed (2nd ed.) The Conspiracy of the 19th Century Unmasked C. H. Thomas
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Those whose husbands are of high rank, live under constant confinement; those of the second class are little better than upper servants, deprived of all liberty; whilst the poort share with their husbands the most laborious occupations.
Domestic Pleasures, or, the Happy Fire-side Frances Bowyer Vaux
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Too poort to sue his company for their breach of contract, he next tried to have a commission appointed to investigate and hear his proposition, but this was refused.
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It will be so strange to find that there are millions of people who do not know Komali poort, who have thought of anything else except burghers and roor-i-neks -- It seems almost disloyal to the Boers to be glad to see newspapers only an hour old instead of six weeks old, and to welcome all the tyranny of collar buttons, scarf pins, watch chains, walking sticks and gloves even.
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It will be so strange to find that there are millions of people who do not know Komali poort, who have thought of anything else except burghers and roor-i-neks -- It seems almost disloyal to the Boers to be glad to see newspapers only an hour old instead of six weeks old, and to welcome all the tyranny of collar buttons, scarf pins, watch chains, walking sticks and gloves even.
Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis Davis, Richard Harding, 1864-1916 1917
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