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-- DB Marcus Umu, Ewa Beach, Hawaii -- Umu, an all-state selection, also was recruited by Washington.
Hawaii - Team Notes 2010
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But it really couldn't be simpler: an open kitchen where the young chef, a graduate of Mayfair's buttock-clenchingly expensive Umu, does his intense, detailed, obsessive-compulsive thing.
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(Soundbite of song) Mr. FEMI KUTI: (Singing in a foreign language) Mr. TERRELL: I have to say, Umu Sangares (ph) -- there's a collection called "Umu (ph)" which everybody must get next to this woman.
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(Soundbite of song) Mr. FEMI KUTI: (Singing in a foreign language) Mr. TERRELL: I have to say, Umu Sangares (ph) -- there's a collection called "Umu (ph)" which everybody must get next to this woman.
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If, however, it be borne in mind that of the goddesses at least two, Umu and Nin-akha-kuddu, are of a local character, the conclusion appears justified that Nisaba was a goddess associated more particularly with the district in which Uruk lay.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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Umu, designated as the 'priestess of Uruk,' [104] and occupying an inferior rank to (2) a goddess,
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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Flinging himself wearily into the only chair in the room to which he had been conducted, Escombe awaited the arrival of Umu, who was presently ushered into the apartment barefooted, and carrying upon his shoulders a small burden as a badge of his immeasurable inferiority -- great and powerful noble though he was -- to the Inca.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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"But the whole of the treasure is yours, Lord, to do what you will with it," answered Umu.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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He felt pretty well convinced that these craven wretches who had allowed themselves to be corrupted into betraying their monarch would have very little hesitation in also betraying their corrupters, especially as they might feel assured that, Umu having taken the matter in hand, those corrupters would henceforth have scant power or opportunity either to reward or to punish.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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Whereupon Umu, by way of reply, proceeded to recount to his royal master the whole history of the affair, so far as he had learned it.
Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru Harry Collingwood 1886
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