Example Sentences

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"Do you know, Paul, I heard a great parl about you to-day?"

From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Caine, Hall, Sir

Does mandy jin the lav adrée Rommanis for a Jack-o’-lantern—the dood that prasters, and hatches, an’ kells o’ the rātti, parl the panni, adrée the puvs? 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Av’ kushto parl o pāni,   Av’ kushto mir’ akai!

From The Gypsies by Leland, Charles Godfrey

Because this hearing and submitting to them, was required as a badge, test, and evidence of due acknowledgment of, and hearty compliance with erastianism and prelacy, or his majesty's government ecclesiastic, Act parl.

From Biographia Scoticana (Scots Worthies) A Brief Historical Account of the Lives, Characters, and Memorable Transactions of the Most Eminent Scots Worthies by Howie, John

When there’s a boro bavol, huller the tan parl the waver rikk pauli the bor. 

From The English Gipsies and Their Language by Leland, Charles Godfrey