coss
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The truth was, they stood in fear of the Portuguese, and detained these men till they should send for instructions to the nabob, who was at the distance of four coss.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
"Well, sir, I think you get there under one hundred bound, and once you got the gold you not care a dam' what it coss comin' back."
From The Valley of the Kings by Pickthall, Marmaduke William
At every coss from Agra to Ajmeer, 130 coss, there is erected a stone pillar, owing to the following circumstance.
From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert
"If you make your way to the village--it is three coss on the other side of the river--you may capture him, sir, as well as regain my property, a third of which is yours."
From In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India by Strang, Herbert
Leet-hearted they trotted away, An aw follow'd, coss 'twur i' mi rooad; But aw thowt awd ne'er seen sich a day— It worn't fit ta be aght for a tooad.
From Yorkshire Lyrics Poems written in the Dialect as Spoken in the West Riding of Yorkshire. To which are added a Selection of Fugitive Verses not in the Dialect by Hartley, John
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