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E dopo il cane e la balena, eccovi qualcosa di più grosso.
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“De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam.”
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[Sidenote: Sea-weazle.] named to be the cocke of balena.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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[Sidenote: Nereids.] ++Nereydes be monsters of {th} e see, all rowghe of body/& whan any of them dyeth, tha {n} the other wepe. of this is spoke {n} in balena, the
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Muscul {us} is a fisshe {tha} t layth harde shellis, and of it the great monster balena receyueth her nature, & it is
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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"De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam."
Moby Dick: or, the White Whale Herman Melville 1855
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"De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam."
Moby Dick, or, the whale Herman Melville 1855
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'De balena vero sufficit, si rex habeat caput, et regina caudam. '
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As we say in Italy (incrociamo le dita) "let's keep our finger crossed" and of course (In culo alla balena) "straight to the whale's ass" ...
The Pirate Bay - Blog oldpb 2010
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At balena Hualur nobis vocatur: Vnde tu Trollhualur scribere debebas.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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