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Some people celebrate by making a dish with sweet fava beans they call ossi dei morti, “the bones of the dead.”
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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Some people celebrate by making a dish with sweet fava beans they call ossi dei morti, “the bones of the dead.”
The Memory Palace Mira Bartók 2011
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So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.
Half a Loaf 2008
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Italians eat sweets created of egg white, chopped almonds and sugar shaped like tibia and skeletons, ossi da morto, "bones of the dead."
Donna Henes: Death Feeds Life Feeds Death Donna Henes 2010
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So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.
Half a Loaf 2008
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So at the end of last year, I was delighted to discover a small storefront selling all the familiar Sullivan St breads and two cookies that, like everything Sullivan St makes, are exemplary: biscotti pratesi (almost as good as mine) and ossi di morti, shatter-light meringues with almonds.
Half a Loaf 2008
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[435] "Et si y avoit pluiseurs des seigneurs et des riches hommes qui avoient leurs chiens et leurs oizins ossi bien comme li rois leurs sirs."
A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand
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I told him I would be tender of his feelings — ossi tender que Zaire.
Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840
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I told him I would be tender of his feelings -- ossi tender que beefsteak.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 Edgar Allan Poe 1829
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Alala, comme c’est beau le coton surtout quand on le voit sur une ossi belle photo !
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