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  • For the rest, it stands to reason that in proportion as the agricultural stage supplants that of pasturage, the superior strength and utility of boys over girls should become more apparent, and this in South Italy is universally proclaimed by the fact that everything large and fine is laughingly described as "maschio" (male), and by some odd superstitions in disparagement of the female sex, such as these: that in giving presents to women, uneven numbers should be selected, lest even ones "do them more good than they deserve"; that to touch the hump of a female hunchback brings no luck whatever; that if a woman be the first to drink out of a new earthenware pitcher, the vessel may as well be thrown away at once -- it is tainted for ever.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • The film is called Il merlo maschio 1 in Italian and Secret Fantasy in the USA.

    Gratuitous nudity #5 « Jahsonic 2007

  • Seguiamo un maschio (Andrew Bukenya) e una femmina (Olga Alex) che volano nel cielo di un mondo cubico, ma non cubista.

    No Fat Clips!!! : :colon 2007

  • The film is called Il merlo maschio 1 in Italian and Secret Fantasy in the USA.

    16 « December « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

  • Long before him, Giuseppe Vandelli had also offered this interpretation in his edition of the Commedia, claiming, "Il peccato ... fu commesso tra maschio e femmina" ( "the sin ... was committed between male and female"), and so had Attilio Momigliano in his edition of Dante's poem.

    Not Bisexual D'Epiro, Peter 2001

  • Occasionally the whines and snarls of the motley crowd that gathered there -- for they were not infrequently quarrelsome -- reached us in the maschio tower where we had our apartments.

    The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Was it boy or girl? and, after some hesitation, it was declared to have been _un maschio_.

    That Stick Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

  • Female insulated terminal Blue Packed 100 pcs Packed 100 pcs Packed 100 pcs PRES MB PRES CIL MR PRES CIL MB Preisolato lamellare maschio BLU sez. cavo 1: 2,5mm2 Preisolato cilindrico maschio ROSSO sez. cavo 0,25: 1mm2 Preisolato cilindrico maschio BLU sez. cavo 1: 2,5mm2 Male cylindric terminals Red cable sect. 0,25: 1mm2 Male cylindric terminals BLUe cable sect.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Come sopravvivere con un'adolescente in casa Quando poi si tratta di mamme di maschio e di femmina, per giunta democratiche, la situazione precipita.

    We Blog A Lot 2008

  • Hanna Rosin ci racconta sul numero di novembre di The Atlantic la storia di Brandon, un bambino di una piccola città del sud degli Stati Uniti che fin da quando ha cominciato ad esprimersi sostiene di sentirsi una femmina e non un maschio («A Boy's Life»).

    Bioetica Giuseppe Regalzi 2008

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