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  • Nos sentimos abrumados, ahogados, como si estuviéramos en la horca, con la soga al cuello, y están a punto de abrir esa compuerta.

    veruscio Diary Entry veruscio 2008

  • Supe, [97-3] por tanto, que eras gallego, que te llamabas Juan Falgueira, y que te habías escapado de la Cárcel Alta de Granada, donde estabas ya en capilla para ir a la horca por resultas de [97-4] haber robado y dado

    Novelas Cortas Pedro Antonio de Alarc��n 1862

  • Don Jorge, there are no bull-functions in the winter, or I would carry you to one, but happily to-morrow there is an execution, a funcion de la horca; and there we will go, Don Jorge.

    The Bible in Spain; or, the journeys, adventures, and imprisonments of an Englishman, in an attempt to circulate the Scriptures in the Peninsula George Henry Borrow 1842

  • Don Jorge, there are no bull-functions in the winter, or I would carry you to one, but happily tomorrow there is an execution, a funcion de la horca; and there we will go, Don Jorge.

    The Bible in Spain 1712

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