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  • Being an unmannered American I can only hope that some pleasantly robusto coffee will also be available.

    The Tea Party at the End of the World Kat Howard 2009

  • Nemo fere aegrotus, sano omnes et robusto corpore, vivunt annos.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Quanto ao sonho de um avião de descolagem vertical robusto e versátil, com imensas aplicações civis, esse vai ter de esperar.

    Leituras Artur 2007

  • SERWER: And the markets, yes, very quickly, the markets are looking very robusto this morning.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2004 2004

  • His voice was a clear, full tenor robusto, and the notes of his delicious love song trilled from his throat with wonderful effect in the still, balmy air of the tranquil, glorious night.

    Monte-Cristo's Daughter Edmund Flagg

  • But kinglike and imperative through the quietness of Casa Grande I hear the call of my beloved little _tenor robusto_ -- and if it is the voice of hunger it is also the voice of hope!

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • My little _tenor robusto_, how he can sing when he's hungry!

    The Prairie Wife Arthur Stringer 1912

  • A stout _tenore robusto_ in the uniform of a naval lieutenant was parading the stage in halos of mauve and green lime-light, and bawling his own praises to a semicircle of females.

    The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • Gotterdammerung, is only the primo tenore robusto of an opera book, deferring his death, after he has been stabbed in the last act, to sing rapturous love strains to the heroine exactly like Edgardo in

    The Perfect Wagnerite, Commentary on the Ring George Bernard Shaw 1903

  • Some day, and we are all out of jail, I expect to hear you in the balcony scene with some famous _tenore robusto_ as Romeo.

    The Lure of the Mask Harold MacGrath 1901

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