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  • In the "Naves," where we are forced to live, it is very cold and very humid.

    Uncommon Sense 2010

  • In the "Naves," where we are forced to live, it is very cold and very humid.

    Uncommon Sense 2010

  • Denver Chief District Judge Larry Naves will decide in a separate hearing whether the former Boulder professor can return to his job or receive pay for years he could have worked at CU.

    Just a Buck 2009

  • Naves also wrote that he decided against awarding Churchill any “front pay” because the former professor had not “seriously pursued” any efforts to gain comparable employment since his dismissal and had even declined to pursue a couple of job offers.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Ward Churchill Denied Reinstatement: 2009

  • Mario Naves of the New York Observer has written an interesting article about his experience with the most expensive painting in the world.

    August 2006 2006

  • Fathers Blanco, Llanos, Fernandez del Villar and Naves, and of the engineers Jordano, the brothers Vidal and Soler and others who have brought such honor to Spanish science, preparing the way for the study of the therapeutic and industrial applications of that wonderfully rich plant life with which our islands have been endowed.

    The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891

  • Naves covered with barrel-vaults appear in a number of large churches built during the eleventh and twelfth centuries, with apsidal and transeptal chapels and aisles carried around the apse, as in

    A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised 1890

  • Naves and transepts were not often failures; facades and even towers and fleches are invariably more or less successful because they are more or less balanced, mathematical, calculable products of reason and thought.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Naves opened far away, with lower, narrower aisles; naves strangely bold in their proportions, whose supporting pillars were very slender, richly caned, so finely chiselled that everywhere they allowed a glimpse of the blue heavens.

    La faute de l'Abbe Mouret ��mile Zola 1871

  • The point where they crossed the river was between Villar and Naves

    The Young Buglers 1867

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