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When Carlos lowered his head, Hernando plunged the sword as best he could into the giant bull's back, high up between the shoulders in the spot they call the morillo, which required a little jump step, an unflattering concession to the scale of the beast.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 1) JTK Belle 2010
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Quit your whinning and get back to work. nicolas morillo
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Gathering up his muleta quickly, he leapt again—inasmuch as he could—but with only one leg to propel him he failed to gain the height he needed to plant the sword in the morillo.
Carlos The Impossible (Part 2) JTK Belle 2010
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a morillo, and was, moreover, warmly enveloped in one of those large cloaks which completed the fashionable costume in cold weather, was amusing himself by tormenting a creature who was prowling about in a ball-dress, with neck uncovered and flowers in her hair, in front of the officers 'cafe.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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