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Quokka, did you know that all the quokkas at Rotto eat cigarette butts?
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At the least, Rotto could whack Conrad with his free fist, or wrap his forearm around Conrad's windpipe, or knee him in the groin.
A Man Half Full Mailer, Norman 1998
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There is no recognition that there are magnum responses available to Rotto, who, after all, is a weathered con who has lived for years with the arts and tricks of dirty fighting.
A Man Half Full Mailer, Norman 1998
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Rotto is the head of a clique, and the clique will hardly let Conrad get away with it.
A Man Half Full Mailer, Norman 1998
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So when he is sounded by a prison wolf named Rotto (who has a build like a WWF wrestler), he grabs the monster's hand with both his hands and crushes the man's fingers, breaks his wrist.
A Man Half Full Mailer, Norman 1998
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Its ruins are known as the Ponte Rotto to this day.
Michael Angelo Buonarroti Charles Holroyd 1889
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Rotto, and the Monte Testaccio, or Calvary, is still called the Arco di S. Lazaro.
Pagan and Christian Rome Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani 1888
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Ah! poor fellow, he ought also to have brought away at the same time some of the sunlight of that country, a scrap of the blue sky, the eccentric costume and the bulrushes of the Tiber, and the large swing nets of the _Ponte Rotto_; in fact the frame with the picture.
Femmes d'artistes. English Alphonse Daudet 1868
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If a young boatman, in the prime of youth, is thrown into the Tiber, and curried away by the stream under the arches of the Ponte Rotto, from whence his afflicted mother receives him into her arms without a symptom of life, she calls out to her friends, "Run, ran to the servant of God: go to Francesca dei Ponziano, and bid her pray for the boy."
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848
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It stood in the heart of the Trastevere, close to the Yellow River, though not quite upon it, in the vicinity of the Ponte Rotto, in a street that runs parallel with the Tiber.
The Life of St. Frances of Rome, and Others Georgiana Fullerton 1848
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