 All the natives round Sydney understand English well, and speak it too, so as to be understood by residents. The Billingsgate slang they certainly have acquired in perfection, and no white need think of competing with them in abuse or hard swearing, a...  Two Years in New South Wales - Page 17by Peter Miller Cunningham - 1827Full view - About this book
 | Scotland - 1827 - 808 pages
...modest new-comers will giggle, blush, cover their eyes with, their fingers, and hurry confu. sedly by. " All the natives round Sydney understand English...of competing with them in abuse or hard swearing, a confitan t torrent of which flows from their mouths as long as their antagonist remains before them... | |
 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...species of education they are living under, may influence their character, habits, and condition. ' All the natives round Sydney understand English well,...white need think of competing with them in abuse, a constant torrent of which flows from their mouths as long as their antagonist remains before them... | |
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