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It was originally a Spanish expression for the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight, the one that finishes off the bull after the matador is done taunting and tormenting him.
Richard (RJ) Eskow: The Ministry of Truth: New Fronts in the War on Social Security RJ 2011
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He glanced at Maria Valenzuela, and knew that the bull-fight in the box was won.
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"Yet we Spanish like the bull-fight," said Luis Cervallos; and I swear the devil was whispering then in his ear, telling him to do that which I shall relate.
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I think she liked John Harned before he followed her to Quito to see the bull-fight.
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The bull is killed many times in the bull-fight, and the bull does not come into the the ring out of desire.
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You have seen the bull-fight and you like it – no?
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The tangible return he might have got, I presented to Eliceo, who promptly invested it in a pair of trousers and a ticket to the bull-fight.
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"You came for a bull-fight," I heard him say, "And by God I'll show you a man-fight!"
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But John Harned did not go to Quito for the bull-fight.
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She spoke many languages, sang like an artiste, and so he followed her to Quito where Maria said she would show him the bull-fight, "brave, clever, magnificent!"
“Samuel! There was a rolling wonder in the sound. Ay, there was!” 2008
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