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  • {113} This cave, which is identifiable with singular completeness, is now called the "grotta del toro," probably a corruption of "tesoro," for it is held to contain a treasure.

    The Odyssey 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1868

  • Felix et errabunda XXI not panicking and consulting an expert that the injury to my eye is not serious wandering, a wonderful meal, and la Virgin with W (ti voglio bene, tesoro) furthermore, that W looks so well (and handsomer than ever) a professional fitting and serious French lingerie (changed my life!) that my beloved yoga teacher is back in town …

    Felix et errabunda XXI 2009

  • Felix et errabunda XXI not panicking and consulting an expert that the injury to my eye is not serious wandering, a wonderful meal, and la Virgin with W (ti voglio bene, tesoro) furthermore, that W looks so well (and handsomer than ever) a professional fitting and serious French lingerie (changed my life!) that my beloved yoga teacher is back in town …

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • All locked up in solitary, screaming 'don't eat my brain' and stuff. albert tesoro

    Suspect in Pelosi threats case weeps at court hearing 2010

  • The poetic but uneven Italian tenor Giuseppe Filianoti Don Ottavio nearly collapsed vocally in "Il mio tesoro" – a piece of exquisite time-wasting, as Ian Bostridge once observed when pondering why Mozart tenors always get short shrift, which "can do for Don Ottavio".

    A tale of two Italian opera cities 2011

  • From convents other authors, although not trained as doctors, wrote home medical guides for the layman, some that became standards of the time, such as Gregorio Lopez's El tesoro de medicinias and Juan de Esteyneffer's Florilegio Medicinal.

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico 2008

  • Right before it, I had read La caccia al tesoro, the latest Montalbano novel, quite a dark story.

    Crime-fiction team-ups Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Anyone who can sing Il mio tesoro well enough to get engaged by an opera company has my undying admiration, I run out of breath just looking at those long phrases of legato 16th notes!

    For the First Time Matthew Guerrieri 2008

  • Casi 155 mil documentos sonoros, que forman parte de la memoria auditiva de México y son un tesoro intangible de nuestro país están ya a disposición de aquellos que quieran consultarlo.

    El acervo de Radiopolis en la Fonoteca Nacional 2009

  • Del Seminario Patavino è la sua massima gloria; ma è ancora un invito alla ricerca più profonda del tesoro di preziose energie e di eccelse virtù a cui la proclamazione della sua santità apre la via.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

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