Lexicographical Neighbors of Backra
Literary usage of Backra
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition Under the Command of by George Pinckard (1806)
"backra country no good ! In Neger country they no flog ... No! me 'fraid to go
where 'em all backra. Me love for fee Neger here and dere j me 'fraid for fee ..."
2. The History of the Maroons, from Their Origin to the Establishment of Their by Robert Charles Dallas (1803)
"... if they did rot know there was a quarrel whh the backra's and Maroons; ...
and when they had got the better of the backra's (white people), ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"They again appear i partment, but the working of its mines ia in a backra: in
isolated masses of considerable extent along the inner side of the ..."
4. The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Hume Greenfield, Henry Walter Bates (1832)
"... and award of a favourite European, and will consent to a commutation, even
for the life of the dearest relative, when proposed by his " backra matty. ..."
5. History of the British Colonies by Robert Montgomery Martin (1834)
"... and award of a favourite European, and will consent to a commutation, even
for the life of the dearest relative, when proposed by his " backra matty. ..."
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