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  • We made plans for the Riffian to present himself to a Corsican garageman named Serrutti, in Taza, but he never came.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We made plans for the Riffian to present himself to a Corsican garageman named Serrutti, in Taza, but he never came.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We made plans for the Riffian to present himself to a Corsican garageman named Serrutti, in Taza, but he never came.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We made plans for the Riffian to present himself to a Corsican garageman named Serrutti, in Taza, but he never came.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • A young Riffian named Mohr acted as butler, a coffee-and-cream-coloured boy, with a girlish face and a head with a close weekly shave, all except one long love-lock, which, combed out, fell over one ear in a glossy brown curl.

    In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory

  • Powers have sought to put friendly pressure upon the Sultan of Morocco to effectually stop the depredations of the Riffian coast pirates.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • Some of them went so far as to send warships to cruise along the Riffian coast.

    Great Pirate Stories Joseph Lewis French 1897

  • The Riffian leader Abd el Krim had vigorously waged a long guerrilla conflict, not only preventing the Spanish army from recovering the land lost after Annual but even threatening the existence of the Spanish Protectorate of Morocco.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • A Spanish landing in the heart of the Riffian territory, with the support of a mixed Spanish-French combined aeronaval fleet, was projected.

    Elections - fresh news by plazoo.com 2009

  • Milgram's picture includes Cezanne's Nudes in Landscape and Renoir's The Artist's Family, as well as Picasso's The Peasant, and Seated Riffian by Matisse.

    Moving the Chains 2011

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