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Word: atch (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WHITE WITCH (439 pp.)-Elizabefh Goudge-Coward-McCann ($4.95). "0 boro Duvel atch' pa leste!" cried Froniga to Yoben-meaning, in Romany, "The great Lord be on you!" Then Froniga "came into his arms with the simplicity of a child." But, as usual, Yoben held his fire. "I am a man to whom the love of woman is forbidden," this stern gypsy tinker had told Froniga, and try as she would to penetrate his enigma with darts from "her long-tailed dark eyes," Yoben was mute and cold as old pewter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Play, Gypsies! | 2/3/1958 | See Source »

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