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  • Also the part in For Whom the Bell Tolls when El Sordo is shooting fascists and saying the rosary.

    intertribal: this is about to go off!, a.k.a. fuck yeah! intertribal 2010

  • If one was hard of hearing or refused good advice, the name Sordo or La Sorda (sordo ` deaf ') might be applied;

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIX No 2 1992

  • Then, from his losing of it, he heard Pilar say, "Sordo --"

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

  • And shortly before his death, El Sordo invokes the image of a skinned rabbit when thinking about how vulnerable before enemy planes he feels on his hilltop.

    Archive 2008-12-01 2008

  • And shortly before his death, El Sordo invokes the image of a skinned rabbit when thinking about how vulnerable before enemy planes he feels on his hilltop.

    Real, Soft Fur to Pat 2008

  • He clearly felt I should be confining my activities to a good Sicilian girl or maybe a Welsh girl in Sicily, had he known about the lovely lady up in the middle town, Sordo.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Sordo, where we live, is the commercial centre of the town and thus does not hold a place in the people's hearts to the same extent.

    Archive 2008-06-01 2008

  • Not too long ago -- well, perhaps longer ago than Carella chose to admit -- a criminal alternately known to the squad as "Taubman" or "L. Sordo" or most commonly "The Deaf Man" -- had tried to rob this bank, twice.

    Money, Money, Money McBain, Ed, 1926- 2001

  • Sordo, another time as Mort Orecchio, and—on the occasion of his last appearance—simply as Taubman.

    Eight Black Horses Ed McBain 1985

  • I suppose he always intended to muck off but he knew we were cooked when Sordo was attacked.

    For Whom The Bell Tolls Hemingway, Ernest, 1899-1961 1940

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