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If a colono, for example, “escapes” to the mountains leaving the island is unthinkable—too many sharks, the entire camp is given even worse food until they capture the inmate, who is carried into camp, tied on a stick, hanging from legs and hands like an iguana, and is soundly beaten.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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Shortly another uninvited colono shows up, and Beto adds again to the simmering pot some accommodating water and more vegetables.
Tattoos on the Heart Gregory Boyle 2010
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El término asentamiento también puede referirse al proceso inicial en la colonización de tierras, o las comunidades que resultan; (véase: aldea y colono).
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El término asentamiento también puede referirse al proceso inicial en la colonización de tierras, o las comunidades que resultan; (véase: aldea y colono).
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El término asentamiento también puede referirse al proceso inicial en la colonización de tierras, o las comunidades que resultan; (véase: aldea y colono).
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With regard to the demands made by certain sectors of the national sugar colono interests Fidel affirmed that the large colonos had sacrificed the small ones and that if the latter did not get ready at once to plant their canes, measured would be adopted, as deemed advisable in view of the circumstances, since he was not going to permit that the Revolution be sabotaged.
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For this sense of _plenus_ ( 'abundant'), compare _Am_ I viii 56 '_plena_ uenit canis de grege praeda lupis', _Nux_ 91-92 'illa [the tree that is not near a road] suo quaecumque tulit dare dona colono/et _plenos_ fructus adnumerare potest', Hor _Sat_ I i 57, and Cic _Sex Rosc_ 6
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Agamemnon cannot restrain himself and even bursts into verse in the course of this disquisition on the decadence of oratory: artis severae si quis ambit effectus mentemque magnis applicat, prius mores frugalitatis lege poliat exacta. nec curet alto regiam trucem vultu cliensve cenas impotentium captet nec perditis addictus obruat vino mentis calorem, neve plausor in scaenam sedeat redemptus histrionis ad rictus. sed sive armigerae rident Tritonidis arces, seu Lacedaemonio tellus habitata colono
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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ILLE ego qui quondam gracili modulatus auena carmen, et egressus siluis uicina coegi ut quamuis auido parerent arua colono, 15 gratum opus agricolis: at nunc horrentia Martis.
The Aeneid Vergil 1912
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The boys and girls stood excitedly along the riverbank, while an older colono in a fake beard and a red and white suit floated towards them on a raft.
Barista 2009
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