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  • Winners: El mapa del tiempo (The Map of Time), Félix J. Palma (Algaida) and El hermano de las moscas, Jon Bilbao (Salto de página)

    Last Drink Bird Head Awards sfawardswatch 2009

  • Winners: El mapa del tiempo (The Map of Time), Félix J. Palma (Algaida) and El hermano de las moscas, Jon Bilbao (Salto de página)

    Science Fiction Awards Watch » Blog Archive » Xatafi-Cyberdark Awards 2009

  • “En boca cerrada, no entran moscas,” I had replied, using an old Spanish proverb.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • “En boca cerrada, no entran moscas,” I had replied, using an old Spanish proverb.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • “En boca cerrada, no entran moscas,” I had replied, using an old Spanish proverb.

    Dancing with the Devil Louis Diaz 2010

  • De dia os transeuntes feito um enxame de moscas à volta do shopping e as varandas dos cúbicos (casas) com os estendais prenhes de lençóis encardidos e esburacados.

    Kinaxixi Market: Going, going, gone! 2008

  • I remember that ... and now we have bueno, ni moscas = good, nor flies so I'm guessing it is something like 'una gorda muchacha no puede cha-cha' close?

    need TV Show suggestions 2003

  • It's common to substitute words like ... nada = naranjas ni maiz/ni moscas = ni modo tacuarucho/tacuache = taco que ondiux = que onda nos vidrios = nos vimos lots more. .just can't remember right now. quevedo

    need TV Show suggestions 2003

  • In the missions of the Orinoco, in the villages on the banks of the river, surrounded by immense forests, the plaga de las moscas, or the plague of the mosquitos, affords an inexhaustible subject of conversation.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • It is neither the dangers of navigating in small boats, the savage Indians, nor the serpents, crocodiles, or jaguars, that make Spaniards dread a voyage on the Orinoco; it is, as they say with simplicity, “el sudar y las moscas,” (the perspiration and the flies).

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

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