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  • No, this isn't a German dish proclaiming eating this 'rotte' would make you exclaim "mein Gott" but instead it is a classic Andhra dish.

    WordPress.com News 2008

  • “Terry Jones dei Monty Python ha trascorso due mesi sulle pianure argentine, per seguire le rotte migratorie di un piccolo gruppo di pinguini di adelia, nel viaggio verso le foreste pluviali di Uruguay e Brasile.”

    No Fat Clips!!! : Extraordinary Bird Life: Penguins 2008

  • But as yet we haue solde none of our cables or halsers, neither is the proofe of them knowen; because the first you sent vs were made of flaxe, which are worth no money: for after they be once wet they will rotte and moulder away like mosse.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Woodes bee, that the one will not easily take fire, and the other will neither bend, rotte, consume, nor be eaten with wormes.

    Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame Francesco Colonna

  • Sweetinges, will receyue wormes, rotte, and dye on the tree, and neuer or seldom cum to the gathering for good and lasting store.

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • Page onelie soch, as fall, and rotte, before they be ripe, and so, neuer, or seldome, cum to any good at all.

    The Scholemaster 1870

  • A numerous escort, superbly clad, surrounded his ambassador; in attendance were packs of enormous hounds; and in front; went a bard, or poet, who sang, with rotte or harp in hand, the glory of Bituitus and of the Arvernian people.

    A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 1 1830

  • The two bounced what they thought were a pair of Do-17s, but were in reality, a rotte of Ju-88

    Latest Articles 2010

  • But as yet we haue solde none of our cables or halsers, neither is the proofe of them knowen; because the first you sent vs were made of flaxe, which are worth no money: for after they be once wet they will rotte and moulder away like mosse.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584

  • Sweetinges, will receyue wormes, rotte, and dye on the tree, and neuer or seldom cum to the gathering for good and lasting store.

    The Scholemaster 1570

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