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For example, many small stores in Mexico "fian" money to frecuent customers and they are supposed to pay bak in the following days. aval on the other hand is a person who signs a contract in wich he/she commits to pay to a third party in case you don't pay them.
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Some quothes -- picture every line spoken sleazily with more than just a cocked eyebrow: My fian... my fiancee!
Archive 2005-09-01 Michelle Collins 2005
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Some quothes -- picture every line spoken sleazily with more than just a cocked eyebrow: My fian... my fiancee!
In-Zane In The Membrane Michelle Collins 2005
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They both knew he was pure Yankee an Episcopa - fian who hadn't seen the inside of a church since hiah school It was
Briar Rose Yolen, Jane 1991
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Both Campbell and Harold Hill had hopes now that the man staying at the villa-Duane Nichol spn-would either contact, or be contacted by, Dan-fian Rose.
The Season Of The Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977
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Both Campbell and Harold Hill had hopes now that the man staying at the villa-Duane Nichol spn-would either contact, or be contacted by, Dan-fian Rose.
The Season of the Machete Patterson, James, 1947- 1977
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The present Sultan is of the same holy line: hence his title of _Shar [= i] fian Majesty_.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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Shar [= i] fs are, like the Sultan, descendants of Mohammed, and they possess the holy _baraka_ -- that is, the birthright of the Shar [= i] fian line.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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The Shar [= i] fian families form an entire class by themselves.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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They imagine that his Shar [= i] fian Majesty wastes vast sums of money; whereas for a great monarch, the ruler of an empire, his private bills are probably absurdly small.
In the Tail of the Peacock Isabel Savory
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