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8 total sentences available.
"Take all the land you want", said the Aborigine chief. "Oh no," said the English general, "we will take just an island." "And which island?" asked the Aborigine chief. "Just the island of Australia," replied the English general.
Source: tatoeba (1824385)
Layla, an Aborigine, made use of her renowned tracking skills.
Source: tatoeba (6111761)
Layla was an Aborigine tracker.
Source: tatoeba (6111868)
People have variety. My preferred model of anthropology has four subspecies of the human species: Mongoloid (variants Sundadont, Sinodont, and Super-Sinodont), Caucasoid (variants Nordic and Mediterranean), Negroid (variants Congoid and Capoid), and Australoid (variants Veddoid, Negrito, Papuan, Melanesian, Aborigine).
Source: tatoeba (8802683)
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Closest matches include native, ab ovo, abo, aboriginal, aboriginal.
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