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  • The suckling pig business really took off in the early 20th century, when posh hotels opened up in the Bairrada spa towns of Luso and Curia, attracting a big-city clientele who were quickly seduced by the local delicacy.

    Big-Time Barbecue Paul Ames 2009

  • Now, however, under the influences of improved education and respect for the public opinion of Europe, pathologic love amongst the Luso – Brazilians has been reduced to the normal limits.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • It's a membership-only outfit, is the Luso-American Cultural Center.

    Luso-American Cultural Center Slightly Less Mysterious Brooks of Sheffield 2008

  • Through a number of measures, both political and economic, former colonial powers maintained their ‘spheres of influence’ consistent with old colonial divisions, hence the zoning and entrenchment thereof of our continent as Anglo-phone Africa, Franco-pe Africa and Luso-phone Africa.

    A lecture delivered at the University of Cape Coast � Ghana 2007

  • I'm pretty much resigned to bowing out of World Fantasy in Madison this year, so I'll probably wind up at IberCon in Vigo (Galicia) which will be the first joint Luso-hispanic SFconference, so should be interesting.

    Breakfast in Bed desayunoencama 2005

  • Luso and Deblen's backgrounds, Luso's adoptive family's jostling for the king's favours, the king's slow death as a result of evil magic by a prisoner he had tortured and killed for dreadful crimes, and Larissia's slow isolation as one by one the people she thought she could trust turn against her, and through all this manifestations of magic to ramp up the tension.

    It's official... mikandra 2007

  • Interviews were cut-off in mid-question and the piece on the Luso party did not identify the party spokesperson.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • Interviews were cut-off in mid-question and the piece on the Luso party did not identify the party spokesperson.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • "Luso does not intend to govern the nation and as such does not have any formulated social or economic policy," said Mr Goureia.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • They relaxed together, laughed themselves to tears over jokes that could not possibly amuse any other Luso.

    Speaker for the Dead Card, Orson Scott 1986

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