Citations:bligh

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English citations of bligh

Noun: "(rare, obsolete) resemblance"

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  • 1849, Anne Marsh-Caldwell, chapter V, in Mordaunt Hall; or, A September Night, London: Henry Colburn, page 108:
    “ But what's his family name? for I never saw such a likeness. Who's your father and mother, young gentleman? for you are so like a quondam pupil of mine, and have a bligh of another who was not my pupil, that I never saw the like.”
  • 1871, Edward Greey, chapter VI, in Blue Jackets; or, The Adventures of J. Thompson, A.B. Among "The Heathen Chinee", Boston: J. E. Tilton & Co., page 42:
    P. S. Give my love to your cousin Amelia, alsow to that red-ed-ded gal the cook next door, if so be you don't objex, she avin a bligh of my sister Fanne in Australia.