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  • Bandera de Uribe (Col.); Berg, Bir manso (Braz.); Capacho (Venez.); Chisgua

    Chapter 26 1987

  • To the leader he gave a little bag of buckskin filled with the powder of the yerba del manso, which still further produces dismay among the foe.

    The Delight Makers Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier 1877

  • Esa armonía que el viento That harmony that the breeze recoge entre esos millares creates among countless leaves de floridos olivares, of flourishing olive trees, que agita con manso aliento; that it stirs so tenderly, ese dulcísimo acento that sweetest mystery con que trina el ruiseñor from the tree-top, close to dawn, de sus copas morador that calls the approaching morn, llamando al cercano día, the nightingale's trill, sweet spell,

    Don Juan Tenorio Jos�� Zorrilla 1855

  • North of this border ranges the "Indio bravo;" south of it dwells his degenerate and conquered kinsman, the "Indio manso" -- not in the "tents," but in the towns of his Spanish conqueror -- the former, free as the prairie wind; the latter, yoked to a condition of "peon" vassalage, with chains as strong as those of slavery itself.

    The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse Mayne Reid 1850

  • His pockets, when turned inside out, yield such contents as might be expected on the person of an _Indio manso_.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • Pressure of this sort put upon an Indian, be he _bravo_ or _manso_, is rarely resisted.

    The Lone Ranche Mayne Reid 1850

  • Importância de ser manso - Instituto Espírita de Educaç …

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows gmigueg 2010

  • Ado corre [el río] más manso allí está más peligroso II, 169

    Four Plays of Gil Vicente Gil Vicente 1501

  • I w b te yo abu nu brsinCh bc s nu brs ill e lling u o t me ina eau e me re ree d re manso luk. p snt iffe nt e f c

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • y ofrece mil olores al sentido, los árboles menea con un manso rüido que del oro y del cetro pone olvido.

    Modern Spanish Lyrics 1899

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