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Both colours are combined with a 17 "aluminium wheel," Pontos ".
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Both colours are combined with a 17 "aluminium wheel," Pontos ".
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Both colours are combined with a 17 "aluminium wheel," Pontos ".
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Since winter had set in, and the emperor had turned aside (to) the region of Pontos, the barbarians decided (to besiege him) in his winter quarters.
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Young Ponto laughed with his friend, at the venerable four-wheeled cruelty-chaise; but seemed amazed that the latter should ridicule still more an ancient chariot of the build of 1824, emblazoned immensely with the arme of the Pontos and the Snaileys, from which latter distinguished family
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Hawbuck, on his part, gives himself patronizing airs to General Sago, who looks upon the Pontos as little better than paupers.
The Book of Snobs 2006
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Drosoula's mother buried the bones of her father and her husband, and for fear of being ridiculed for her Pontos accent, elected to become dumb, leaving all responsibilities to her fifteen-year-old daughter, who, within the space of three years, had learned to speak the Cephallonian dialect and had married a shrewd fisherman who knew a faithful wife when he saw one.
Captain Corelli's Mandolin De Bernieres, Louis 2003
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When they reached Pontos, part of the star fell down upon the earth.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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I would find them in the evening telling tales of Crete or Pontos, or laughing while the little boy played at bull-leaping with a footstool, Peace and order came to the women's quarters, which had stood in some need of it; and people began to say that the Amazon, for all her strangeness, had made King Theseus steady.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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The Amazons of Pontos belonged traditionally to the race of the White Scythians, hence their silver hair; the single plait occurs in Anatolian figurines of girls or goddesses across several millennia.
The Bull From The Sea Renault, Mary 1962
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