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High temperatures and steam rising from the streets are reminiscent of San Salvatore di Sinis, a small Sardinian village outside Cabras near Oristano.
Paolo Rossi: From Jet-Set to Western Movies Paolo Rossi 2011
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The intense scenes in Sergio Leone's westerns were filmed at San Salvatore di Sinis.
Paolo Rossi: From Jet-Set to Western Movies Paolo Rossi 2011
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The coast is less tourist exploited but nonetheless very attractive: the beach of the grains of rice Is Arutas, Mari Ermì, Putzu Idu, S'Archittu, or the romantic small beach of San Giovanni di Sinis, in the homonym peninsula, will surprise you for their simple beauty, as also has happened to me when I have discovered this hidden face of my Sardinia.
Paolo Rossi: From Jet-Set to Western Movies Paolo Rossi 2011
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For if I am tamely to submit to this treatment from such as thee, no more will Sinis, robber of the Isthmus, bear me witness how I slew him, but say my boasts are idle, nor will those rocks Scironian, that fringe the sea, call me the miscreants 'scourge.
Hippolytus 2008
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For if I am tamely to submit to this treatment from such as thee, no more will Sinis, robber of the Isthmus, bear me witness how I slew him, but say my boasts are idle, nor will those rocks Scironian, that fringe the sea, call me the miscreants 'scourge.
Hippolytus 2008
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Sinis, and Sciron, and Procrustes,128 foreign travellers have had an easy time of it.
Memorabilia 2007
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Sinis had made his den in it, as the hyena does in an old burned city.
The King Must Die Renault, Mary, 1905-1983 1958
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For if I thus suffering by thee be vanquished, never will the Isthmian Sinis bear witness of me that I killed him, but will say that I vainly boast.
The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides
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And Sinis leapt to his feet, and answered, pointing to the bones above his head, "My larder has grown empty lately, so I have two fir trees ready for thee."
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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Then he bent down two young fir trees, and bound Sinis between them, for all his struggling and his prayers; and let them go, and ended
Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes
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