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  • Entao pessoinhas do meu Brasil e do mundo vao atraz de informações para depois postarem comentarios em qualquer rede publica que esteja vinculado ao nome da CHRISTINA AGUILERA …

    Christina Aguilera “Not Myself Tonight” Song Debuts Next Week 2010

  • Teo vao nikoropaka ny manampahaizana nitady teny malagasy, ka voatery nitety tanàna sy vohitra, nilaza fa “voly tora-tady” no dikan'io fa tsy izany “Raline” izany.

    Saluting Rado, a Poet Legend 2008

  • Vision Aid Overseas (vao. org.uk) recycles your old specs by donating them to people who can't afford new ones.

    TIP SHEET 2007

  • O le afa, ua taalili ai le ulu vao, ua pa mai le faititili.

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • Seumanu gave me one of his names; and when my name was called at the ava drinking, behold, it was au mai taua ma manu-vao!

    Vailima Letters 2005

  • And when I saw the two corncrakes I found them to be practically the same bird, though but half the size of the _kili vao_.

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

  • I had just shot the wild _moa vao_ (mountain cock) and had picked it up when I heard a voice say in Samoan -- but thickly as foreigners speak: 'It was a brave shot, boy'.

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

  • I asked; "hast seen an _aitu vao_ (evil spirit of the forest)?"

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

  • _Kili vao_ in native means bush-snipe, as distinct from _kili fusi_, swamp snipe.

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

  • Ireland heard at night, during the summer months, the repeated and harsh "crake, crake," of many of these birds, issuing from the fields of growing corn, and was very curious to see one, for the unmelodious cry was exactly like that of the _kili vao_, or "banana-bird" of the

    The Call Of The South 1908 Louis Becke 1884

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