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Examples
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The first of the three at that moment was the "tulisane" leader, and him, in thirty seconds, they had driven six lances through.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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To the "tulisane" the sounds meant that he was bringing his partner to help him, just as at night the far-off, long-drawn cry of a panther calls the creature's mate to share the prey.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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The "tulisane" knew that the American soldiers were at Pasi; and that the man who led them lived in one of the white tents they had set up there.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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The demand for a sacrifice was appeased, and the men who had killed the "tulisane" cared as little for his companion as they did for the white man who had been his prisoner.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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The "tulisane" knew that the American soldiers were at Pasi.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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A "tulisane" is to the Philippine Islands what a brigand is to Italy,
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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The "tulisane," you see, had seen the sergeant's revolver, and thought wisest to attack him wet.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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Spanish government to do about what I chose in Palawan, and although they cared not one ripple of the Sulu Sea for the authority of Spain when it could not be enforced by force of arms, they did respect my arsenal of weapons and the skill with which I one day shot down a crazy "tulisane" of their tribe who had started to run amuck, and by the shot saved the lives of no one knew how many of them.
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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"tulisane" whom his fellows know to be the possessor of a powerful
Anting-Anting Stories And other Strange Tales of the Filipinos Sargent Kayme
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"He's a tulisane then?" asked Victoria, trembling.
An Eagle Flight A Filipino Novel Adapted from Noli Me Tangere Jos�� Rizal 1878
hernesheir commented on the word tulisane
"A "tulisane" is to the Philippine Islands what a brigand is to Italy" --from the Wordnik examples.
November 24, 2011