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... tell what lay behind their various answers . ( None of the villagers liked Pak Kasa . Pak Senik knew that the family had a wild streak , but he didn't like op- posing them . He would rather try to find some peaceful solution to all ...
... tell what lay behind their various answers . ( None of the villagers liked Pak Kasa . Pak Senik knew that the family had a wild streak , but he didn't like op- posing them . He would rather try to find some peaceful solution to all ...
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... tell Pak Senik that people who were eager for material wealth were ignorant and irreligious . His land wasn't like the main highway . All sorts of filth fell on the highway , a thousand and one different varieties of men stamped on it ...
... tell Pak Senik that people who were eager for material wealth were ignorant and irreligious . His land wasn't like the main highway . All sorts of filth fell on the highway , a thousand and one different varieties of men stamped on it ...
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... tell him so . Sud- denly he heard someone shouting : it was Semek , his sis- ter . Semaun turned around . He could see her in the dis- tance , running across the walls towards him . Anxiously he waited for her to arrive . She had never ...
... tell him so . Sud- denly he heard someone shouting : it was Semek , his sis- ter . Semaun turned around . He could see her in the dis- tance , running across the walls towards him . Anxiously he waited for her to arrive . She had never ...
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Adibah Amin bamboo Bandung bomoh brother Burn carcase chest coconut corpse coughing cow's cows Debasa and Jusoh eyes face father fields front gone grass hand happened head headman's house ironwood Ishak Haji Muhammad jungle Jusoh and Lebai Kasa's killed knife leapt Lebai Debasa machette Mak Leha Malay Malay Language maun Melaka mother never night once Pak Kasa Pak Senik knew Pak Senik nodded Pak Senik turned Pak Senik wanted Pak Senik's house Perhaps plant twice platform quickly realized replied rice rice-fields rushed sarong screamed Semaun felt Semaun nodded Semaun stopped Semaun took Semaun turned Semaun's house Semek Shahnon Ahmad shone shook shoot the tiger shoulder shouted silence Singapore Siti slowly smiled someone stairs stared started stood suddenly tell thing Tok Imam torch trying Universiti Sains Malaysia Usman Awang village headman voice waited walked watched weed-cutter weeds whole village wild wounded bull wrong